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Using Montarice in central Adriatic Italy as a case study, this paper focuses on the extraction of the spectral (i.e., plant colour) and geometrical (i.e., plant height) components of a crop canopy from archived aerial photographs, treating both parameters as proxies for archaeological prospection. After the creation of orthophotographs and a canopy height model using image-based modelling, new archaeological information is extracted from this vegetation model by applying relief-enhancing visualisation techniques. Through interpretation of the resulting data, a combination of the co-registered spectral and geometrical vegetation dimensions clearly add new depth to interpretative mapping, which is typically based solely on colour differences in orthophotographs.

Predictive maintenance of railroads is essential to prevent costly disruptions. A critical aspect of this maintenance is ensuring the integrity of the pantograph-catenary system, where copper alloy wires experience continuous friction and wear. The degradation rate and condition of these wires are vital factors in planning maintenance activities. Current wear rate prediction methods are largely theoretical and often inaccurate, overlooking essential contextual details. Additionally, wire condition data frequently show inaccuracies and inconsistencies in spatial and temporal resolution, complicating the feasibility of using data-driven approaches. This research investigates a data-driven framework to accurately predict wear rates, emphasizing data processing and optimized data use. A dataset spanning nine years of Dutch railway infrastructure measurements is used, employing various machine learning techniques to determine the most effective approach. Findings indicate that, in 95% of cases, average wire thickness can be predicted with a precision of ±0.12 mm over a four-year period. This study advances the field by proposing a framework that addresses measurement errors, a common challenge in sensor-based assessments, making data-driven maintenance a more reliable option.

Our understanding of Roman urbanism relies on evidence from a few extensively investigated sites, such as Pompeii and Ostia, which are unrepresentative of the full variety of Roman towns. This article presents the results of the first high-resolution GPR survey of a complete Roman town—Falerii Novi, in Lazio, Italy. The authors review the methods deployed and provide an overview of the results, including discussion of a case-study area within the town. They demonstrate how this type of survey has the potential to revolutionise archaeological studies of urban sites, while also challenging current methods of analysing and publishing large-scale GPR datasets.

Fino a poco tempo fa, lo studio delle porte cittadine romane nell'Italia centrale adriatica si basava essenzialmente su una combinazione di analisi dei monumenti e limitati interventi di scavo, fornendo una panoramica interessante ma limitata degli ingressi alle città in questa regione. Con l'introduzione di metodi d'indagine non invasivi su larga scala, tuttavia, è molto migliorata la possibilità di integrare diverse metodologie per lo studio degli accessi urbani, come dimostrano ora chiaramente alcuni esempi provenienti da diversi centri delle Marche centrali (Potentia, Trea, Septempeda).

Reviews \"Ocriculum (Otricoli, Umbria) : an archaeological survey of the Roman town,\" by Sophie Hay, Simon Keay, and Martin Millet (British School at Rome, distributed by Oxbow Books, 2013).

The Falerii Novi Project represents a newly formed archaeological initiative to explore the Roman city of Falerii Novi. The project forms a collaboration of the British School at Rome with a multinational team of partner institutions. Thanks to a rich legacy of geophysical work on both the site and its territory, Falerii Novi presents an exceptional opportunity to advance understanding of urbanism in ancient and medieval Italy. The Falerii Novi Project employs a range of methodologies, integrating continued site-scale survey with new campaigns of stratigraphic excavation, archival research and environmental archaeology. The project aims to present a more expansive and holistic urban history of this key Tiber Valley settlement by focusing on long-run socio-economic processes both within Falerii Novi and as they linked the city to its wider landscape.

The summer of 2022 saw the continuation of a multi-year fieldwork programme initiated in 2021 at the site of Falerii Novi, in the Middle Tiber Valley. A four-week campaign built upon the results of the previous season (Bernard et al., 2022), as well as long-standing exploration of the site by means of non-invasive methodologies (Keay et al., 2000; Verdonck et al., 2020). The ‘Falerii Novi Project’ (FNP) explores the development of this substantial urban site over the longue durée from its Republican origins through Imperial and late antique transformations and the reoccupation in the medieval period. The FNP is driven by socio-economic historical questions and by a desire to evaluate urban changes within their broader regional landscape (Andrews et al., 2023). The campaign from 30 May to 24 June 2022 consisted of stratigraphic excavation in three locations within the intramural area. This work represented a multi-institutional collaboration between the British School at Rome, Harvard University and the University of Toronto, along with researchers from Ghent University and the University of Florence, under the authorization of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Provincia di Viterbo e per l'Etruria Meridionale.

This volume presents a coherent collection of papers presented at an International Workshop (held in Ravenna, 13-14 May 2019) which focussed on the transition between Italic culture and Romanised society in the central Adriatic area - the regions ager Gallicus and Picenum under Roman dominance - from the fourth to the second centuries BCE.

Falerii Novi and its territory have long been a subject of archaeological study by the BSR – first through the exploration of the Roman Campagna by Thomas Ashby and, following that, the surveys of John Ward-Perkins as part of the pioneering South Etruria Survey (Frederiksen and Ward-Perkins, 1957). First indications of archaeological layers were reached in all three cases at a depth of ca. 40 cm. Archaeological deposits in the eastern city are thinner and even absent in certain augerings, perhaps resulting from erosion facilitated by the presence of the northeastern town gate.

As part of the AHRC-funded ‘Beneath the Surface of Roman Republican Cities’ project (2015–17), our team is pursuing a full-coverage Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of the entire intra-mural area of the Roman town of Falerii Novi, in combination with an assessment of the unpublished pottery from the excavations of 1969–75: our objective is to further our knowledge and understanding of the Roman town and its earlier phases of settlement (Launaro et al., 2016; 2017).