Patti,

This is brilliant - I haven't even finished reading through all of it, but
already, I find it amazingly simple, yet rich in meaning.
Combine this with our "ghost structure" for the statehouse, and we'll be
hipster archaeologists, at least in our remote location.  Ha!

when  you are not smart enough to invent something fabulous,  borrowing
someone else's cleaver idea is the next best thing!
(and hopefully will be considered an complement).

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 1:56 PM, Patrice Jeppson <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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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