Larry

Kate Holmes undertook detailed surface collections around domestic
sites in the settlement of Arltunga in Central Australia, as well as
some shallow excavation and building photogrammetry.  Parts of the work
have been published in early volumes of Australian Journal of Historical
Archaeology [Vols 1 and 2], as well as a PhD thesis which focussed on
the glass material found.

Denis



Denis Gojak
Heritage Asset Manager
Planning NSW

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Dear Colleagues,
   Can anyone suggest examples of studies of surface scatters on
historic
sites? I am helping to develop a treatment plan for a set of early 20th
farm
laborer camps where the main archaeological deposits appear to be low
to
medium density artifact scatters. The main examples from the literature
I've
come across so far have been associated with backcountry farmsteads
and
sharecropper residences in the Southeast, but there must be other
probably
well known references.

Metal detector surveys on battlefield sites and military encampments
call to
mind a similar situation, but on this project the deposits are clearly
visible as thin glass and ceramic scatters with more or less definable
boundaries. The best examples cover perhaps 300 to 500 square feet,
with one
or two artifacts for every ten square feet. Some are near the camp
buildings,
some are on the outlying perimeters. Preliminary assessment suggests
that
these are not the surface traces of deeper deposits such as sheet
midden. The
treatment plan also calls for intensive shovel testing and backhoe work
to
prospect for buried deposits, but these scatters seem worthy of
investigation
as well.

Citations would be most useful, but accounts of other folks' experience
with
such situations would be welcome as well.
        Best,
         Larry McKee
         TRC Nashville