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Ground Penetrating Radar and Excavation Unit 3

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Excavation Unit 3 superimposed over GPR

Excavation Unit 3 superimposed over GPR

In this GPR Slice image, made by Brian Damiata, hard reflectors from the Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey are shown in yellow and red.  In this GPR- slice, blue areas did not return any energy.   This slice is from about 90 cm below the ground surface.  The location of the hard reflectors (red and yellow) suggest that the stone wall excavated in EU3  probably continues to the southeast.   EU3 is the excavation with the overhead image superimposed.  If you look closely, you can see a row of stones in the east.  You can see more of EU3 in a previous blog post.  The red lines in the jpg are our best estimate as to the location of structures in the 1874 map, also described in a previous blog post.

Author: John Steinberg

Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.

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