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In the late 1800's, the Smithsonian Museum came to the Delta to map the area. The handdrawn map shows an Indian mound and village situated on the site of the higher education center. Although nothing visible remains now, the MS Department of Archives and History sent in an archeological team to run a variety of tests on the grounds: magnetic imaging, ground penetrating radar, and resistivity readings. When the old school is demolished, the team will return to run the tests again. The following is the description given by the archeological team.
On these images, a gray scale is applied to the map of the intensity of the different geophysical properties measured. Black is a strong target, white is no target, and shades of gray are somewhere in between.
The best of the images is the resistvity. You'll notice the rectangular feature (dark) in the southern portion of the survey area that was probed. Also there are more irregular anomalies along the eastern side of the survey. These may be related to the Cutrer House, but they could be some sort of natural phenomena. Some ground truth on those would help. You can see several faint, light colored (low), linear anomalies. A couple of these go to the strong rectangular anomaly already mentioned. Walkways? Pipes? Some additional lineaments are to the south and east of the house, but these are more modern features.
The conductivity generally does not show anything of interest as well as the resistivity. It does show the pipe nicely to the north and east of the house. It also shows a section of one of the things that might be a walkway or old pipe. This could mean it is brick or just shallower.
The magnetic imaging also shows the aforementioned target even more clearly. Also really visible is the irregular area on the eastern edge of the survey.
For the Ground Penetrating Radar data, the maps represent various depths and a color pallette is applied to the intensity of the radar bounce. Reds and yellows are strong returns. Approximate depths are given above each image, but may actually be a bit less. Overall, it doesn't really seem to show much of interest. There are some suggestive looking patterns in the deeper slices - there seems to be a vague alignment to them. However, they appear to be too deep to be of interest.
The interpretation is a summary map of interesting anomalies for all instruments and the preliminary interpretation.
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