Practice question · True or false
A clear rectangular anomaly in a magnetometry survey proves a Roman building lies buried there.
Hints
- The instruments detect contrasts, not identities.
- Nothing in the physics supplies a date or a culture.
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False
Why
Geophysics finds anomalies, not identities or dates: that rectangle could be a Roman villa, a modern sheepfold, or geology. The instrument aims the trench; only excavation names what it found.
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