North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: 3D Ranch; Site Number: _____; County: Butler; State: KS; Country: USA; Ownership: Private; Landform: Loess Plain/Colluvial slope;

Date of Site: 1860s; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Euro-american; Site Type: Historic Frontier Barn; Site Size: over 3,000 sq m;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 1 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1 m; Area Surveyed: 400 sq m; Date of Survey: July 1997; Land Cover Type: Open plain grasses & drainage brush/trees ; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Electrical resistance view of a probable 1860s barn foundation at the 3D Ranch site, near El Dorado, KS;  

 

Project Name: 3D Ranch, KS;

Reference: Kvamme, K.L. (2000). Current Practices in Archaeogeophysics: Magnetics, Resistivity, Conductivity, and Ground-Penetrating Radar. In Earth Sciences and Archaeology, P. Goldberg, V. Holliday, and R. Ferring, eds., Plenum Press, New York, pp. 353-384.

Survey by: Kenneth L. Kvamme, Department of Anthropology, Main 330, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA; Phone: 501-575-4130; Fax: 501-575-6595; email: kkvamme@uark.edu; web: www.uark.edu/depts/anthinfo/kvamme.html.

Survey for: Butler County Historical Society;

Report Location: Original manuscript at Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas; Report Type: Publication - Edited Volume;

Abstract/Summary