Archaeology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland began looking for the former homestead of West Ashcom in the Spring of 2012. West Ashcom was established on the south bank of the Patuxent River in what is now St. Mary’s County, MD by John Ashcom in 1651. At its height in the early eighteenth century it contained a manor house, kitchen, dairy, orchard, port, haberdashery, and various other barns and dependencies. Using traditional sources such as archives and methods like pedestrian surveys and surface collections, a late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century site was identified in a plowed field. Since then, archaeologists from SMCM have employed a range of sources, field methods, and mapping techniques to define the parameters of the site, past structures, and identify activity areas in a largely compromised area. This paper summarizes the results of more traditional uses of GIS mapping paired with experimental drone data to demonstrate the benefit of mixing old and new technologies when interpreting sites subject to continuous plowing and planting.

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解释West Ashcom：无人驾驶飞机，文物和档案

马里兰州圣玛丽学院的考古学于2012年春季开始寻找西阿什科姆的故居。西阿什科姆于1651年由约翰·阿什科姆在Patuxent河南岸建立，现今位于马里兰州圣玛丽县在十八世纪初的鼎盛时期，它包含了庄园，厨房，乳制品，果园，港口，小百货商店以及其他各种谷仓和附属物。利用传统资料（例如档案馆）和行人调查和地表收集等方法，在耕地中发现了十七世纪末/十八世纪初的遗址。从那时起，SMCM的考古学家就采用了多种资源，现场方法和制图技术来定义场地的参数，过去的结构，并在受到严重破坏的区域识别活动区域。