North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Great Hopewell Road; Site Number: _____; County: Licking; State: OH; Country: USA; Ownership: City-Park; Landform: Glacial Drift Plain;

Date of Site: 100 B.C-A.D. 400; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Hopewell; Site Type: Earthworks (causeway); Site Size: Potentially many kilometers in length;

Survey Type: Magnetic Gradiometry;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM-36; Sampling Interval: 0.25 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m; Area Surveyed: 2000 sq m; Date of Survey: 19-May-2001; Land Cover Type: Mowed Grass; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 1 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.5 m; Area Surveyed: 2000 sq m; Date of Survey: 19-May-2001; Land Cover Type: Mowed Grass; Ground Truthing: No;

Graphics/Imagery:

Results of resistivity survey showing linear anomalies that may represent the earthen wall enclosures of the Great Hopewell Road;

Resistance data set with a profile line drawn the entire 100 m expanse;

Project Name: Great Hopewell Road, OH;

Reference: Simpson, D. and K.L. Kvamme (2001). Final Report of Geophysical Investigations at the Great Hopewell Road, Cynthia Street Park, Heath, Ohio. Archeo-Imaging Lab, Department of Anthropology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Submitted to the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.

Survey by: Duane Simpson and Kenneth L. Kvamme, Department of Anthropology, Main 330, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.

Survey for: Bradley Lepper, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH;

Report Location: Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary