Rita,

Thanks for the example.  The asphalt scares me.  I sometimes even regret
asphalting one of the old roads that we reopened.
But if you have asphalt, bricks or pavers would certainly be the way to go.

It is not at all the same thing, but in Utah at the "This is the place"
site, they placed wagon wheel tracks in the parking lot to represent the
first Morman settlers arriving and to guide visitors into the museum.  I
thought that was very clever.


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 3:07 PM, Rita Elliott <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hey Linda,
> Martha Zierden and the Charleston Museum/city delineated the 18th century
> redan by using bricks in what was otherwise a sea of asphalt. I am sure she
> can provide the specifics if you are interested. Not exactly 15th century,
> but it may give you ideas...
> Best,
> Rita
>
> Rita Elliott, M.A., RPA 11477
> *Education Coordinator & Research Associate*
> The LAMAR Institute, P.O. Box 2992, Savannah, GA 31402
> www.thelamarinstitute.org  [log in to unmask]  706.341.7797
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:10 PM, 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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