@article { VIOR002-006,
	year = {2006},
	title = {Prospectie en waardering van alluviale gebieden langs de Boven-Schelde. CAI-project 2003-2004 },
	publisher = {VIOE},
	volume = {2},
	journal = {VIOE-Rapporten},
	url = {https://oar.onroerenderfgoed.be/publicaties/VIOR/2/VIOR002-006.pdf},
	abstract = {Recently, the company Steenhouwerij Van de 
oortele scheduled extensive clay and sand extraction 
works in the floodplain of the river Scheldt near 
Ename. These large scale destructions will cover an 
area of 80 ha over a period of 8 years. Already at 
the beginning of the extraction works, a Lateglacial 
Scheldt gulley and a buried forest were discovered. 
The high potential but low visibility of this 
covered landscape led to a CAI-project, initiated 
by Ghent University (Department of Archaeology 
and Ancient History of Europe) and the Flemish 
Heritage Institute (VIOE). The main purpose of 
this project was to define a reliable methodology 
for the survey and evaluation of covered prehistoric 
sites in alluvial contexts. 
The research areas were situated at Ename 
and Eine (East Flanders), in the Scheldt alluvium. 
At a later stage, when threatened by industrial 
construction works, the area of Oudenaarde Donk 
was included. 
The fieldwork always was conducted in two 
phases. First, the covered palaeo-topography was 
reconstructed to define areas with high archaeological 
potential. These areas became systematically 
sampled during the second phase, resulting finally 
in the evaluation of the located new sites. 
At Ename, it soon became clear that the prehistoric landscape was intersected by several (subrecent) 
river channels which made the defining of archaeological interesting zones virtually impossible. The 
systematic sampling of such a complex area is not the 
appropriate method to uncover archaeological find 
spots. The palaeolandscape at both Eine and Oudenaarde appeared to be better preserved which made 
these areas suitable for further auger survey. In both 
cases the use of a ‘mega-Edelman’ auger proved succesful for the detection and evaluation of well preserved, covered prehistoric sites. 
Within the project, however, no further evaluation and verification of the research method and results of Eine were forseen. In Oudenaarde, a small 
excavation campaign was executed by the VIOE. 
This way, a limited comparative research demonstrated the importance of the chosen sample grid and the 
width of the sieving meshes. Also extrapolating auger 
results into expected excavation results proved to be 
dangerous and not recommendable. 
With this CAI- research project, only a first step 
to a more efficient survey and evaluation of covered 
archaeological sites was made. However, it is clear 
that further scientific and methodological research of 
floodplain contexts is required.},
	keywords = {},
	author = {Bats, , Machteld and Bastiaens, , Jan and Crombé, , Philippe}
}

