Hannah, thanks for the lead.
Linda Derry
Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Alabama Historical Commission
9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
park: 334/ 875-2529
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:27 PM, Hannah Russell <[log in to unmask]>
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> It's been several years since I've been, but I believe the Edge of the
> Cedars State Park in Blanding, Utah has a very small trail loop that
> includes an excavated and hardened kiva and unexcavated architecture. That
> park (and museum) is an excellent resource and might be a good place to
> inquire with for ideas. As I recall, they also have some interactive
> artistic installations that give visitors a feeling of the precontact Mesa
> Verde landscape. I does sound also like consultation is appropriate.
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:11 AM Linda Derry <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Histarchers,
> >
> > Can anyone suggest some good examples of sites where the locations of
> very
> > large buried archaeological features have been marked for public
> > interpretation without digging up the features or harming them in any
> way?
> >
> > For example, in Franklin TN, I saw that a portion of backfilled Civil War
> > trenches were marked out using grey slag on the ground surface. The slag
> > was contained by landscape edging. I noticed that grass was beginning
> to
> > emerge through the rock so it might not be a permanent installation
> unless
> > there was a plan to regularly spray the rock with chemical weed killer.
> >
> > I want to mark the location of a very large semi-circular moat around a
> > 15th century late Mississippian village. It was back filled in the mid
> > 19th century, but was used for a few decades as the centerpiece of an
> early
> > 19th town plan. I thought about planting a tall prairie style grass,
> but I
> > what I really need is something that is a visual clue but something that
> > visitors can easily walk across to access the acreage inside the
> > semicircle. I am hoping to accomplish this without much disturbance to
> > the mid-19th century fill in side the moat. And of course, I do not have
> an
> > unlimited budget.
> >
> > Any ideas or examples? I know there is someone out there that can help
> me
> > solve this puzzle.
> >
> > Linda Derry
> > Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
> > Alabama Historical Commission
> > 9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
> > park: 334/ 875-2529
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