Electromagnetic survey to detect a section of the Messapian city walls in Ugento (Lecce)

The Messapian city walls in Ugento (Puglia, in south Italy) are of great archaeological importance and some sections are still visible. In order to locate a stretch of the city walls , a non destructive geophysical prospection was performed, applying the electromagnetic method. The survey was carried out in a perip heral area of Ugento, near a visible section of the city walls The analysis and interpretation of the measured electromagnetic data specifically in this work, the quadrature phase component) revealed a clear anomaly that could be ascribed to the city w al ls; in fact, it is aligned with the adjacent section of the visible walls.