Archaeological survey of trenchline from First world war over Sukov (NE Slovakia)

Authors

KAPAVÍK Radim VOJTAS Martin PETŘÍK Jan TĚSNOHLÍDEK Jakub ZUBALÍK Jiří ČMELÁK Ondřej TAJKOV Peter BALOGH Arpád

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Archaeology of Conflicts II
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Keywords World War One; archaeology; magnetometry; Slovakia
Description At the end of winter 1915, in February and March, the frontline stalled on the hill over village Sukov (dist. Medzilaborce) in the territory of nowadays north-east Slovakia. Part of the Austrian trenches was built in open terrain at mountain meadow. This position was occupied by Landwehr infantry regiments nr. 8 ( from Prague) and 9 ( from Písek). Presence of trenches on this place led to its quick erosion and disappearance in a short time after the war and today it is impossible to visually locate. This article presents experimental use of magnetometric survey for localisation of Austro-Hungarian trenchline from the First World War. It is the first use of geophysical methods for this purpose in this kind of territory.
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