The informative contribution of the geophysics in the preventive archeology for the knowledge, the protection and planning of restoration project: the case of the Grange of Ventrile

Nowadays the use of the geophysical introspections has entered completely in the methodologies of archaeological inquiries, aimed not only to the discovery or to the spatial definition of possible buried archaeological evidences, but also in the description of a possible state of conservation. The utilization of these non-invasive investigations, perpetrated also in the Italian legislation about the preventive archaeology, permits so to know better the investigated asset and the contiguous territory. These informations help to plan better all the activities concerning the protection interventions and the restoration of real estate and the territorial planning. This contribute illustrates the data of a particular type of intervention, where to the process of planning action aiming to the protection and to improvement of possible buried archeological evidences, under a structure that is already a real estate (Grange of Ventrile), has been added a wider cognitive project for a territorial planning. © 2016 IMEKO-International Measurement Federation Secretariat. All rights reserved.