Old Mobile (1MB94) Fort Louis, Mobile County, Alabama.

Summary

After an intensive remote sensing effort in 2005 failed to identify remains of Fort Louis at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), a large pit feature associated with one of the fort's bastions was found in that search area by hand excavation. This feature and adjacent units were excavated in 2007-2010.

Cite this Record

Old Mobile (1MB94) Fort Louis, Mobile County, Alabama.. ( tDAR id: 380899) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8TH8P2F

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1702 to 1711

Spatial Coverage

min long: -88.026; min lat: 30.942 ; max long: -87.971; max lat: 30.983 ;

Record Identifiers

2004.077(s): Accession Number

Source Collections

University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies Old Mobile Collection 2004.077

University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum Old Mobile Collection 2004.077

Related Comparative Collections

University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies Port Dauphin Village Collection 1997.005

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-2 of 2)

Images

  1. Excavation Photos from Fort Louis at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2007)

Datasets

  1. Field Specimen Catalog for Fort Louis, Old Mobile (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (2010)