North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Mission Santa Catalina de Guale; Site Number: _____; County: McIntosh; State: GA; Country: USA; Ownership: St. Catherines Island Foundation; Landform: Barrier Island;

Date of Site: AD 1587-1683; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Spanish; Site Type: MIssion (Historic Structures); Site Size: ~12,500 sq m;

Survey Type: Magnetometry-Total Field;

Instrument: Geometrics G-806 Proton Magnetometer; Geometrics G-816 Portable Proton Magnetometer; Sampling Interval: 2 x 2 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 90,000 sq m; Date of Survey: May-1981; Land Cover Type: Scrub palmetto/live oak forest; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic contour map of Quad IV, Santa Catalina de Guale;

Three-dimensional magnetic map of Quad IV, Santa Catalina de Guale;

Three-dimensional magnetic map of nine quadrangles at Santa Catalina de Guale; SYMAP rendering of magnetic profile of Quad IV, Santa Catalina de Guale;

Project Name: Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, GA;

Reference: Garrison, E.G., and J.G. Baker. (1985). Magnetic Prospection and the Discovery of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia. Journal of Field Archaeology 12(3):299-313. Reproduced from Journal of Field Archaeology with the permission of the Trustees of Boston University. All rights reserved.

Survey by: Ervan G. Garrison and James Graham Baker, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY.

Survey for: St. Catherines Island Foundation;

Report Location: NA; Report Type: Journal Article;

Abstract/Summary