This article discusses the application and implications of magnetic prospection within two complex early mediaeval sites of the 5th–10th centuries BCE in northern Spain, at Aistra and Peña Amaya in the Upper Ebro Valley. In this period most sites displaying domestic and other forms of occupation present multifaceted and challenging problems due to the poor preservation of stratigraphic relationships in rural contexts and rarity and poor visibility of early mediaeval horizons in multi-period urban sites. It is now widely acknowledged that extensive magnetic prospection, both in rural areas and in abandoned townscapes, can on a variety of sites facilitate the identification of domestic settlements, productive areas and monumental structures as well as the patterns of former roads, trackways and field boundaries. The two sites described here were selected to test this approach in the particular environment of the Ebro Valley and to draw any resulting conclusions about early mediaeval settlement in the area.

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Aistra (Álava) 和 Peña Amaya (Burgos) 的磁勘探：迈向中世纪早期伊比利亚的新诊断范式

本文讨论了在西班牙北部的两个复杂的早期中世纪遗址（位于上埃布罗河谷的 Aistra 和 Peña Amaya）中，磁勘探的应用和意义。在这一时期，由于农村环境中地层关系保存不善，以及多时期城市遗址中早期中世纪视野的稀有性和可见度低，大多数展示家庭和其他形式职业的遗址都存在多方面和具有挑战性的问题。现在人们普遍承认，在农村地区和废弃城镇景观中进行广泛的磁勘探可以在各种地点促进识别国内定居点、生产区和纪念性建筑以及以前的道路、轨道和田地边界的模式.