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| Monadnock Hiker |
Posted - April 29 2024 : 09:54:55 AM
Lasers are being used extensively in archaeology for recording and discovering sites as well as analyzing artifacts in great detail. One laser technology that is particularly good at discovering new sites is lidar (light detection and ranging).
In this technique, pulsed lasers are emitted (usually from an aircraft) and the reflected light is used to map out the landscape. This technique can be especially useful when there is a large amount of vegetation covering a site.
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Fort Anne
A lidar image of Fort Anne combined with a historical map.
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Located in Nova Scotia, Canada, Fort Anne was built in the 17th century and was the site of frequent clashes between the British and French, with the fort changing hands on a number of occasions. In 1710, the fort was captured by the British for the final time. Lidar research is being used to help reconstruct what the fort looked like in 1706. By combining lidar images with historical maps, researchers were able to show what the fort may have looked like around that time.
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(Image credit: Image courtesy Jonathan Fowler |
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| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - April 30 2024 : 09:24:30 AM
That's a great history. And from 1629. I once visited Fort Beauséjour, which is located on the isthmus connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is quite a place as well. It would have been nice to travel through Nova Scotia but at the end there was a long ferry ride so we opted to go by land and through New Brunswick. |
| Monadnock Hiker |
Posted - April 29 2024 : 12:47:00 PM
Never heard of it - but if this is true - Fort Anne had quite a history.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Anne
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Fort Anne is a historic fort protecting the harbour of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. It was built by Scottish settlers in August 1629 as Charles Fort.[1] For the first 120 years of the fort's service period, the settlement of Port Royal, later Annapolis Royal, was the capital of the New France colony of Acadia and British North America colony of Nova Scotia. In 1917, Fort Anne became the first National Historic Site of Canada.[2] Although no longer in active service, it is the oldest extant fort in Canada. - Fort Anne has provided more defensive service than any other fort in North America, having been attacked and blockaded at least 19 times over a service period of 225 years, from the Acadian Civil War through to the American Revolutionary War. - The fort also contains the oldest military building in Canada and the oldest building administered by Parks Canada, the 1708 powder magazine.
The importance of Port Royal as a settlement site was first recognised by Pierre Dugua, Lieutenant General of New France, in 1604. - After the nearby fortified habitation he constructed was destroyed by a raid from Virginia in 1613, a new fort was built on the current site by Scottish settlers in 1629 under the leadership of Sir William Alexander. - The new construction was called Charles Fort after Charles I, King of Scotland. - The fort was acquired by the French in 1632 and would later pass between the French, English and British until the area was finally ceded to Great Britain in 1713 at the end of Queen Anne's War. - The last assault on the fort was from American privateers in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War. |
| Fitzhugh Williams |
Posted - April 29 2024 : 10:03:34 AM
That's interesting. I was not familiar with that site. |
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