Linda, Thanks. I'll pass the word. Ants are a big problem at Los Adaes. They hit the tourists hard!. Good luck with your project.Pete Gregory
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Linda Derry
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2018 10:05 AM
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Subject: Re: archaeological interpretation
Thanks Pete, lots of good information, and from similar locations (in terms of fire ants and all). fyi, we had been spot treating fire ant beds and were losing the battle, but this year we are using a broad cast method that
seems to be working !!!!!! Looks like a twice a year treatment will do
it. Not cheap, but efficient.
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 1:08 PM, Pete Gregory <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Linda, we have marked the outline of the Spanish Presidio Nstr. Senora
> Delos Adaes {Los Adaes State Historical Comemorative Site) here in
> Louisiana with a line of garden timbers, stack of two pinned by iron
> stakes (re-bar). You can step across it , see it from the air or
> drones easily and sub- surface impacts are minimal. The timbers do not
> cost much and are not visually obtrusive. There are drawbacks. They
> attract fire ants here. And treated or not they deteriorate, they have
> to be mowed with a weed eater and a section has to be opened so mowers
> can pass through.
> The timbers have been moved and remote sensing shows little impact
> on the features.
> At one point the Office oF state parks planted clover at Poverty
> Point, the large Prehistoric site where there a series of concentric
> ridges, Red and white clover gave Pretty stark impressions of the
> features. Seasonally, not blooming, not so clean. Now gone from the
> site. This does not introduce stone of any sort at least. You might
> contact the National Center for Preservation, Technology and Training
> and find more advice., They are on-line. NPS uses other things,
> shredded rubber from re-cycled tires makes nice paths those plants
> invade it.
> Hope this helps.
> Pete Gregory
> Williamson Museum, N.S.U. OF Louisiana
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jul 18, 2018, at 12:11 PM, Linda Derry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Histarchers,
> >
> > Can anyone suggest some good examples of sites where the loca large
> > buried archaeological features h a publicly available b
> > 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 teron the grounds that
> 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 y. T. 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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