MSU Archaeology Laboratory

The 2005 and 2006 MSU summer field schools in archaeology conducted survey and testing in Columbus-Belmont State Park, Hickman County, Kentucky, site of a major Civil War fortification built by the Confederates and later occupied by Union troops.  The students surveyed two areas of the site with metal detectors, flagging “hits” and excavating shovel test pits at every tenth flag.  In the area behind Arrowhead Point, the northeastern salient of the embankments, a shovel test pit penetrated a deep feature, which was exposed and excavated.  The report to the Office of State Archaeology for 2005 and field data from 2005 and 2006 have been digitized and are posted here.