Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) was employed by the LAMAR Institute team on four portions of Battery Brooke, a Confederate artillery battery along the James River bottoms in Chesterfield County, Virginia. This research contributes to a larger cultural resources investigation of a potential development tract. The four areas selected for GPR survey were along sections of the artillery battery and one cannon emplacement that was behind the primary battery berm. Survey of these areas yielded very good GPR data and many profile and plan view images were generated after the data was downloaded. Selected images were shown in this report. Additional images are in digital format in Appendix I, which includes a series of GPR-Slice animations for each GPR block. These four small samples of a large Confederate defensive battery demonstrate that important information may be recovered by GPR survey. Ground truthing of several of the more curious radar anomalies is recommended to better assess the value of this remote sensing technique in this environment.
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