North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Fort de Chartres; Site Number: _____; County: Randolph; State: IL; Country: USA; Ownership: State; Landform: River Terrace;

Date of Site: AD 1718-1772; Period Type: Historic; Culture: French; Site Type: Military Post, Ditch; Site Size: ~4 acres;

Survey Type: Conductivity;

Instrument: Geonics EM31; Sampling Interval: 1 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: ~1.5 m; Area Surveyed: ~933 sq m; Date of Survey: 15-July-1980 to 16-July-1980; Land Cover Type: Mown Turfgrass; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

A conductivity map of an area on the NW side of Fort de Chartres;

 

Project Name: Fort de Chartres, IL;

Reference: Bevan, B.W. (1983). Electromagnetics for Mapping Buried Earth Features. Journal of Field Archaeology 10(1):47-54. Reproduced from Journal of Field Archaeology with the permission of the Trustees of Boston University. All rights reserved.

Survey by: Bruce W. Bevan, Geosight, New Jersey.

Survey for: Old Missouri Research Institute, sponsored by the Illinois Department of Conservation;

Report Location: NA; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary