This is an artist's interpretation of Dock Creek in Philadelphia -
***scroll the pictures until you get to the section where bungee cords are
used to show the water.
http://www.winifredlutz.com/installation_02.html.

This was an experimental art interpretation organized by the American
Philosophical Society to interpret the historical landscape within
Independence National Historical Park.

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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