Elizabeth

Is there aerial photography available for your cemetery? I am just about to
plot lost graves in two adjacent cemeteries using a 1948 aerial. Once  I
have plotted the graves it is planned to use ground probing radar to confirm
gravesites and establish how deep they are (There have been a lot of ground
level changes since the cemeteries closed). The ground probing radar has
been used over here on Rottnest Island to locate the graves of Aboriginal
prisoners located under the camping ground.

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From: Elizabeth Landy <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Saturday, 23 June 2001 3:21
Subject: LOST GRAVES - magnetometer - Australia


>Our local cemetery has 3 visible graves with headstone and at least 11
>known graves that are now lost. (Graveyard in use from 1880s until 1927). I
>have found a paper on the use of a proton precession magnetometer for
>magnetic mapping of graves (Stanley,J.M. & Connah,G. 1977) but wondered if
>there is any more recent technology for use on a sloping site, in tertiary
>sand with little or no rock present?Elizabeth Landy
>