SDO15651 - Tarrant Valley Lunula Site Gradiometer Survey, July 2014

'The survey was carried out at the Tarrant Valley Lunula find site. The field is situated on Quarternary and Neocene Clay-with-Flints above Cretaceous Spetisbury Chalk Member bedrock and slopes gently downhill from north to south. The survey results reveal a general trend of weak anomalies running northwest-southeast across the whole field - possibly due to ploughing and or drainage. There is also a slight southwest - northeast trend, again possibly due to agricultural practice. There is also a general scatter of non-linear anomalies across the site, increasing in intensity towards the north suggesting more intensive actiivity, as well as several large amorphous non-linear anomalies towards the south of the field. The degree of confidence in identified anomalies ranges from low to moderately high. Although the survey has not detected any anomalies directly over the Lunula find spot one (labelled E) is sufficiently close to be worthy of further investigation.'