North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Kaufman-Roitsch; Site Number: 41RR16; County: Red River; State: TX; Country: USA; Ownership: Private; Landform:River terrace;

Date of Site: mid-1500s; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Caddoan; Site Type: Burials; Site Size: 1 acre?;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 m; Area Surveyed: 967 sq m; Date of Survey: September 18, 1999; Land Cover Type: Open weeds/brush/graded roadbed; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistivity at the Kaufman-Roitsch Site, TX, showing the disturbed area of the excavated burial and indication of a linear anomaly, probably a trail;

  

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM-36; Sampling Interval: 0.125 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 951 sq m; Date of Survey: September 18, 1999; Land Cover Type: Open weeds/brush/graded roadbed; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic results at the Kaufman-Roitsch Site, TX, revealing numerous dipole anomalies representing historic iron and recent steel debris;

 

Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;

Instrument: GSSI SIR-2000, with 400 MHz antenna; Sampling Interval: 0.02 x 0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: about 2 m; Area Surveyed: 280 sq m; Date of Survey: September 18, 1999; Land Cover Type: Open weeds/brush/graded roadbed; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Principal GPR anomalies at the Kaufman-Roitsch Site, TX, showing the known and discovered graves and a linear feature, probably a trail;

GPR time slice at 25 nS showing two clear anomalies at the locus of the known and discovered graves at the Kaufman-Roitsch site, TX;

Project Name: Kaufman-Roitsch, TX (41RR16);

Reference: Kvamme, K. L. (2000). Geophysical Investigations at the Kaufman-Roitsch Site (41RR16), Texas. Submitted to Larry Banks, Detroit, TX.

Banks, L. D., and N. T. Banks (2002). Last Twentieth Century Archeological Investigations at the Arnold Roitsch Site (41RR16), Red River County, Texas. Submitted to the Summerlee Foundation, Dallas, Texas.

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: Larry Banks, Detroit, TX / Texas Historical Commission;

Report Location: Larry Banks, Detroit, TX / Texas Historical Commission, Austin; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary