North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Fort Laramie National Historic Site; Site Number: 48GO1; County: Goshen; State: WY; Country: USA; Ownership: Federal - NPS; Landform: Terrace Above Laramie River; Date of Site: AD 1834-1935; Period Type: Historic; Culture: Euro-American and Native American; Site Type: 19th century fort and 20th century homesteads; Site Size: 3,392,064 sq m;

Survey Type: Magnetic Field Gradient;

Instrument: Geoscan Research FM-36; Sampling Interval: 0.125 m x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5m; Area Surveyed: 13,200+ sq m; Date of Survey: 1994; Land Cover Type: Prairie; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Magnetic/Resistance image, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY;

Survey Type: Electrical Resistivity/Resistance;

Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Sampling Interval: 0.5 x 1 m; Prospecting Depth: 0.2 and 0.8 m; Area Surveyed: 13,200+ sq m; Date of Survey: 1994; Land Cover Type: Prairie; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Resistance image, Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY;

Project Name: Fort Laramie National Historic Site, WY;

Reference: Somers, L.E. (1998). Geophysical Remote Sensing Survey of the Quartermaster Depot Dump at Fort Laramie National Historic Site. In Archaeology at the Fort Laramie Quartermaster Dump Area, 1994-1996. D.N. Walker, ed. pp. 81-90. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mountain Region, Division of Cultural Resources, Selections Series, No. 13, Denver, Colorado.

Survey by: Lewis E. Somers, Geoscan Research (USA), P.O. Box 383, Sea Ranch, CA, USA, 95497; Phone:707-785-3384;

Survey for: National Park Service;

Report Location: Intermountain Region, National Park Service, Denver, CO; Report Type: CRM Report;

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