NCPTT’s sponsored metal detection workshop was a resounding success. Twenty participants and six instructors spent a day in the classroom and one-and-a-half days in the field, which were very productive. Students surveyed three redoubt locations at New Ebenezer, Georgia and recovered a variety of revolutionary war-era artifacts. Several cannon balls, musket balls, gun parts, and a 1722 Spanish Real coin were recovered.
Students learned the basics of metal detecting and their applications for different field conditions. Survey grids were established and two person teams located and excavated their finds. Artifacts were mapped in-place and a site distribution map was plotted using GPS instruments.
NCPTT wishes to acknowledge the LAMAR Institute and Connor Consulting for their collaboration and success of the workshop. Photographs by Art Gibert, 2016.
Patrick Severts, April Beisaw, Peter Sittig, Wayne Harms
Workshop class photo
Wrist plate from a Brown Bess musket
Dan Elliot with artifacts
Nick Wallace with a 3 pound cannonball
Tad Britt and Christine Thompson
1722 Spanish Real