Summary
Without magnetic prospecting, many details of an archaeological site would probably remain overlooked and unexplored in the subsequent excavation phase. However, magnetic prospection can be successful only on sites where there is a magnetic contrast between the archaeological struc tures and the adjacent undisturbed soil layers. Until today, no simple correlation between the varieties of different geochemical conditions with soil magnetic properties has been identi fied. At the present time, there is no way to forecast soil magnetic properties and hence whether magnetic prospecting will be successful or not.