291-299

• Büyüksaraç, A.
• Sayılır, B.
• Yalçiner, Cahit Çağlar
• Bektaş, Ö
• Kurban, Y.C.
• Topçu, M.İ.

Kumkale that is an old Ottoman fort is located near the ruins of ancient Troy. Cannons throwing huge balls were placed in the fort of Kumkale such as other forts on the side of Dardanelles in the period of Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Empire attended to the World War I against Allied Forces in 1914. The Allied forces attacked as bombarding Ottoman’s batteries in Dardanelles. Firstly, the British began their interest in Kumkale with an unsuccessful bombardment on 19th of February, 1915. They followed this up on 25th of February with a bit more success, their warships staying out of range as they pounded the area. When they were leaving from Kumkale, Allied Forces destroyed the cannons. Since then, the destroyed cannons were buried in the ground. However, approximate places of them were recorded in military archives. Here, buried cannons were successfully investigated by magnetic and ground penetrating radar (GPR) methods in three regions, where pieces of cannons, phone cable between array of cannons, equipment used in maintenance and repair of the cannons and pieces of cannons were located.

• History and Archaeology

• Historical geography

Canakkale, World War I, Kumkale, Cannons, Magnetic, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

1. Acioglu, Y. (2006) Çanakkale Kaleleri Y. Lisans tezi COMU Sosyal Bilimler Enst. (in Turkish).Arisoy, M.O., Kocak, O., Buyuksarac, A.,Bilim, F. (2007) Images of buried graves in Bayat,Afyon (Turkey) from high resolution magnetic data and their comparison with preliminaryexcavations, Journal of Archaeological Science, 34 (9), 1473-1484.Arslan, O., Bilkan, A.F., Cakir, O., Bilkan, O. F., Ceyhan, N. (2005) Çanakkale Savaşları Albümü,Cevre ve Orman Bakanlıgı, p. 121 (in Turkish).Asci, A. (2008) Kumkale muharebeleri, AS-ADD Hannover (in Turkish)Blakely, R.J. (1995) Potential Theory in Gravity and Magnetic Applications. Cambridge UniversityPress: 441 pp.Buyuksarac, A., Bilim, F., Ates, A., Bektas, O. (2006) Investigation of magnetic surveyingdata of buried grave jars in Harmanoren Necropolis (Turkey) using linear transformationsand analytic signal. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33, 910– 920.Buyuksarac,A., Arisoy, M.O., Bektas, O., Kocak, O., Cay, T. (2008) Determination of gravelocations in Dedemezari Necropolis Using Magnetic Field Derivatives, ArchaeologicalProspection, 15 (4), 267-283.Buyuksarac, A., Bektas, O., Tulunay, E., Ates, A. (2013a) Identification of buried archaeologicalsubstances using derivatives of magnetic anomalies in Nif (olympos)Mountain, West Anatolia, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 13 (1),1-8.Buyuksarac, A., Eser, E., Bektas, O., Akay, B., Kosaroglu, S. (2013b) Surface GeophysicalInvestigations and Preliminary Excavations at the Divriği Citadel, Sivas(Turkey), Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 13(1), 119-128.Durrheim, R.J. and Cooper G.R.J. (1998) Euldep: A program for the Euler deconvolutionof magnetic and gravity data. Computers and Geosciences, 24 (6), 545-550.Geosoft, (2004) Oasis Montaj wiever and magmap interpretation package. Geosoft Inc.Jones, G. (2008) Geophysical Mapping of Historic Cemeteries, Technical Briefs in historicalArchaeology, 3, 25–38.Mellet, J. S. (1992) Location of Human Remains with Ground Penetrating Radar. Proceedingsthe Fourth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar, GeologicalSociety of Finland, Special Paper 16, 359–365.Roest, W.R., Verhoef, J., Pilkington, M. (1992) Magnetic interpretation using the 3-D analyticsignal, Geophysics 57, 116–125.Sayilir, B. (2006) Erenköy ve Kumkale bolgelerinde Canakkale savaslari’na ait tarihiKalıntılar ve bugunku durumu”, I. Uluslararası Troas Bolgesi DegerleriSempozyumu, Intepe-Canakkale, 231 (in Turkish)Stroud (1999) Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli.Milea, C.M., Hansen, R.O., Tsokas, G.N., Papazachos, C.B. and Tsourlos, P.I. (2010)Complex attributes of the magnetic signal for multiple sources: Application tosignals from buried ditches, Archaeological Prospection, 17(2), 89–101.Thompson, D.T. (1982) EULDPH: A new technique for making computer-assisted depthestimates from magnetic data, Geophysics. 47, 31–37.