Archaeologists’ work prelude to memorial
Florida Public Archaeology Network members are digging into Clay County’s past – but not too deeply.
Sarah Miller and Amber Grafft-Weiss of the state-funded FPA’s Northeast Florida regional center recently used ground-penetrating radar equipment to search for signs of caskets and other burials on a 1-acre site off Haven Avenue.
Their work is a prelude to plans Clay County archivist Claude Bass has to turn the property – which has been a cemetery since the early 1800s — into a memorial for Clay County pioneers and Civil War soldiers who were buried there after a brief but deadly skirmish along the St. Johns River.
I’ve been meaning to look into using GPR to locate graves. The cemetery I’m working in has a lot of unmarked graves, either because the original headstone disappeared or disintegrated or they never had them to begin with. Some of them even get visited by descendants or other interested parties.
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