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;

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:

A quiet GPR profile at the Travis site;

GPR profile revealing the location of a possible path;

GPR profile showing irregular strata near a possible road; GPR profile showing the location of a possible earthen feature;

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;

Abstract/Summary