Stroll up to the stone remnants of the 18th-century fortifications for views of the outer islands and cruise liners departing for Stockholm and St Petersburg.
They also recall the customs of elderly chuetas who traced their fingers along the stone remnants of the former synagogue and surreptitiously kissed their fingertips.
The rationale for this assumption is that, generally speaking, buried stone remnants or metal bodies of archaeo-architectural interest are characterised by true resistivities higher or lower, respectively, than the resistivity of the hosting environment, which normally consists of medium-to-low resistivity sediments.
At the western edge there are stone remnants of an old, rural settlement, but the remainder, grouped around Edgeware and Kingston Roads, consists of bland, repetitive social housing arranged on long, curved streets which combine to create an environment which is anonymous, claustrophobic and disorientating.
Charles Wood, a tour guide, led me through hunks of stones, remnants of oval houses that were once protected by conical thatched roofs, and into courtyards that dot the steep, grassy slopes that run down to the sea, constructed from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 300.
Villages are centred around offering stones, a remnant of the traditional religion, which today has been largely replaced by Roman Catholic ritual.
Traditional Orthodox women pray individually, and quietly, by the Kotel's massive beige stones, a remnant of the retaining wall of the mount revered by Jews as the site where their ancient temples once stood.
Tensions occasionally run high around the holy site where throngs of Jewish worshipers regularly pray before the huge beige stones, a remnant of the retaining wall of the Temple Mount revered by Jews as the site where their ancient temples once stood.
It is in a walk-up building that, despite three renovations since 2002, has retained historic details like exposed oak rafters, stone walls, and remnants of an ancient mural.
Two Bronze Age stone circles and remnants of huts on the moors above the village show that the area has been settled since earliest times, and a hoard of 33 silver dinari dating from 30 to 170 AD found in a local field indicates that the Romans had a presence.
Right at the heart of the modern government quarter, for example, an EU-directive-lob from the Reichstag, I find the Parlament der Bäume (parliament of trees, see below), a DIY ensemble of memorial stones, graffitied wall remnants and flourishing foliage that's still run by its (now-octogenarian) founder, the artist and activist Ben Wagin.
