North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
Database Report:
Site Name: Travis Site; Site Number: _____; County: Newport; State: VA; Country: USA; Ownership: National Park Service-Colonial National Historical Park; Landform: Island;
Date of Site: _____; Period Type: Colonial Period; Culture: Euroamerican; Site Type: Historic Settlement, Path, Cemetery; Site Size: ~3,600 sq m;
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Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;
Instrument: GSSI SIR System-7 with 180 MHz antenna; Sampling Interval: 2 m transect separation; Prospecting Depth: ~1.5 m; Area Surveyed: ~1,900 sq m; Date of Survey: 19-June-1995; Land Cover Type: Mowed grass and weeds; Ground Truthing: No;
Graphics/Imagery:
GPR
profile showing irregular strata near a possible road; |
GPR
profile showing the location of a possible earthen feature; |
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Project Name: Travis Site, VA;
Reference: Bevan, B. (1995). A Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey at the Travis Site, Jamestown Island. Geosight, Pitman, New Jersey. Prepared for Colonial National Historic Park, Yorktown, Virginia.
Survey by: Bruce Bevan, Geosight, Pitman, NJ;
Survey for: Colonial National Historical Park;
Report Location: Colonial National Historical Park, Yorktown, VA; Report Type: CRM Report;