Ground-Truthing False Earthworks at Fort Eustis, Virginia

Summary

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Fort Eustis, a military installation in southeastern Virginia, contains a number of earthworks dating to the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It has also been the location of extensive bulldozer training, which has left behind anomalous mounds of soil. Because of this, more than one site has been erroneously identified as a Civil War earthwork. By examining aspects of these sites such as the shape and location of the earthen feature, its appearance on old maps, and its visibility on Lidar, it has been possible to determine whether a feature is a true earthwork or the result of more recent military bulldozer training.

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