Friends Donates $3,500
For Little Bighorn River Oxbow Archeological Survey
Superintendent Kate Hammond presented us with an opportunity to help fund
an archeological survey
project at the battlefield. For the survey, electric pulse induction, a
technology never before used at the battlefield, would be used to search
for metal objects to a depth of up to three feet. The project was
performed in July 2010 under the direction of Dr. Douglas Scott, retired
NPS Archeologist and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at The University
of Nebraska - Lincoln. The area to surveyed was the neck of an oxbow loop
in the Little Bighorn River, one of three within the National Monument
boundary, but the one most imminently threatened to be washed away and
with it any undiscovered battle-related and cultural artifacts. A proposal
was put to the Friends Board of Directors to provide $5,000, which added
to the $3,700 of allotted National Park Service money, would fund the
survey in full. “That is wonderful news - thank you!” said Kate Hammond,
Little Bighorn Battlefield Superintendent, when hearing of the Friends
board approval for funding.
Go here for more
details and to read Dr. Douglas Scott's reports.
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