North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
Database Report:
Site Name: Siletz Cemetery; Site Number: _____; County: Lincoln; State: OR; Country: USA; Ownership: Confederate Tribes of Siletz Indians; Landform: Low Hill;
Date of Site: AD 1850's-present; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Siletz Indians; Site Type: Cemetery; Site Size: 60,000 sq m;
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Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;
Instrument: Geometrics G-858 Cesium Magnetometer; Sampling Interval: ~38 readings per meter x_0.5 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 225 sq m; Date of Survey: 25-March-1999; Land Cover Type: Grass, trees, and bushes; Ground Truthing: No;
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Survey Type: Ground Penetrating Radar;
Instrument: GSSI SIR-2 with 500 MHz antenna; Sampling Interval: 32 scans per second x 0.5 m; Range: 100 nS; Prospecting Depth: 2-3 m; Area Surveyed: 225 sq m; Date of Survey: 26-May-1998; Land Cover Type: Grass, trees, and bushes; Ground Truthing: No;
Graphics/Imagery:
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of the magnetic data and GPR data with the locations of four marked graves
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Project Name: Siletz Cemetery, OR;
Reference: Rogers, M. (2001). Detection of Burials at the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians Historic Period Cemetery, Oregon: A Comparison of Ground-Based Remote Sensing Methods. Master's Thesis, Oregon State University. (used with permission). View report in pdf format (13.96 MB).
Survey by: Michael Rogers, Oregon State University, 215 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, Phone: (541) 737-1726 E-mail: rogersm@ucs.orst.edu.
Survey for: Confederate Tribes of Siletz Indians;
Report Location: Oregon State University; Report Type: Unpublished Master's Thesis;