A RAG System for the Management Forensic and Archaeological Searches of Burial Grounds

Burial grounds are commonly surveyed and searched by both police/humanitarian search teams and archaeologists.<br/>One aspect of an efficient search is to establish areas free of recent internments to allow the concentration of assets in suspect<br/>terrain. While 100% surety in locating remains can never be achieved, the deployment of a red, amber green (RAG) system for<br/>assessment has proven invaluable to our surveys. The RAG system is based on a desktop study (including burial ground<br/>records), visual inspection (mounding, collapses) and use of geophysics (in this case, ground penetrating radar or GPR) for a<br/>multi-proxy assessment that provides search authorities an assessment of the state of inhumations and a level of legal backup<br/>for decisions they make on excavation or not (‘exit strategy’). The system is flexible and will be built upon as research<br/>continues.