Have you checked with any Tribal representatives to see what they might consider appropriate? 



Daniel B. Davis 

Administrative Branch Manager, Cultural Resources Section 

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet 

Division of Environmental Analysis 

200 Mero Street 

Frankfort, KY 40622 

(502) 564-7250 or (502) 782-5013

KYTC Archaeology and KYTC Cultural Historic



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Subject: archaeological interpretation



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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