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| Haberdeventure |
Was there a circular drive in front of Haberdeventure? Where might the slave houses have been? For a week in April there was an Archaeology/Cultural Landscape Project at Thomas Stone Historic Site in Charles County to try to answer these questions as well as to learn more about the cultural landscape of the site by using non-invasive remote sensing.
It's not often we get a chance to help with remote sensing, but April 17-20 volunteers were invited to participate. Two CCASM members (Elsie and Carol) along with three other local residents (Linda, Lisa, and Elaine) volunteered.
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| Collecting GPR data |
The effort was a combined approach by the National Park Service Regional Archaeologists and the Regional Cultural Landscape staff (from both the Regional Archaeology Program and the Cultural Landscape Program). In three areas at the historic site several twenty-meter grids were laid out to assist with gathering data. The remote sensing survey methods used included ground penetrating radar (GPR), electrical resistivity, and electromagnetic conductivity.
Although we were shown the results of the data gathered for each method, it is expected to take several months to combine and interpret all the data in order to determine where there might be features that could be ground truthed.
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