Richard,
While I know you conducted your tests at Mission San Diego, I am surprised
you did not run the machines over the public park lawns at the Presidio de San
Diego. Most of the walls are visible as lumps in the lawn, but a lot remains
unknown under the more level lawns. The actual jail location remains a
mystery, as does the south wall and many of the rooms (now under gardens or lawn).
The parking lot is in the vicinity of the east wall and ammunition casemate.
There is the Vallejo Map, created for an artist named Vischer that could be
used to test findings. The Presidio Council manages the Presidio and probably
would be interested in your testing. There is a lot more of these ruins than
you will find at Santa Barbara.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
In a message dated 9/29/2008 4:19:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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Bob:
Claudia and I would really like to see your work at Santa Barbara and what
methods you are using for protection\reconstruction of adobe walls. We did
a pXRF Workshop for Jack Williams last November in San Diego at the Mission
and it went very well. Could you use this technology at the Presidio in
Santa Barbara? We just finished pXRF studies of the Pershing Square site
of the 1815-1822 Presidio at San Francisco for Dave Morgan and NCPTT and
will be getting that data out over the next month. Would you be interested
in such a workshop at Santa Barbara in February or March?
We are used to working on Presidios in Arizona and hope to go back this
winter or next and do a CSF archeogeophysical and archaeochemical workshop
on the 1840's Mexican Hacienda y Presidio de Babocomari and the Spanish
presidio of Terrenate. We would welcome the participation of you or any of
your students. Both sites have standing walls are relatively intatact and
are known to Jack Williams.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
Consulting Historical Archaeologist & Remote Sensing Specialist
(Archaeogeophysics)
Director, Wondjina Research Insitute
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Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: Presidio de San Diego
> The computer simulatiuon sounds like a great idea, though I have not yet
> seen
> the one for SD. Meanwhile, reconstruction is physically impossible at
> Monterey or San Francisco, and politicaly impractical at SD, so SB will
> have to
> remain the only partially reconstructed presidio in California. We have
> successfully incorporated surviving historic structures into the
> reconstruction and
> do thorough archaeology before any above ground building. This is an
> alternative to the current NPS philosophy of stablizing ruins. At the same
> time, it
> costs the taxpayer nothing.
> R.L. Hoover
>
>
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