GPR PROSPECTING WITH THE SUPPORT OF HISTORICAL ARCHIVE RESEARCH: THREE CASE STUDIES IN LECCE, ITALY

In this paper, we show the results of three case histories where GPR prospecting has been interpreted also with the aid of a specific archive research on documents of the XVI and XVII century. The case histories are related to three churches of the renaissance and baroque period in Lecce, Lecce, Southern Italy. The aim is to deliver the usefulness of GPR prospecting in these kind of monuments and to show how the likelihood of the interpretation can be increased when historical information is available.