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We used these steel plates in Korea to build airfield landing strips.
Reason. Simple to put together, low cost, repaired broken strips in a very
quick time.
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike
Polk
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 5:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Artifact Identification
A suggestion is that this represents portable vehicular pads. During the
Vietnam war steel mesh squares which could be snapped together were used to
make portable helicopter pads and roads through areas which could not
otherwise be landed on or driven across.
When I was running the field portion of the Tombigbee waterway Historic
Townsites Project in 1980, I got permission to purchase enough of this to
build a road over very muddy soils. We ended up using gravel, but if that
had not worked, purchase of a portable road from a surplus guy in Oklahoma
was our next move.
Mike Polk
Commonwealth Heritage Group
Ogden, Utah
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> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:04 PM, Hannah Russell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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> Hi All,
> I found this material at a 1960's military complex in southeast Utah
> and am looking for some ideas of what it might be. Funny story,
> within a week of recording this site, I was at a bar in Salt Lake City
> and there was a room divider made out of the same material. The
> pictures of the material in situ and at the bar can be found at the link
below to a google photo album.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> https://goo.gl/photos/3HfR3xJiqtUBiqDQ7
>
>
> Thanks in advance for you help!
>
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> Hannah Russell, RPA
> Cottonwood Archaeology, LLC
> [log in to unmask]
> (435) 210-0414
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