How to Reconstruct the Landscape of a Battlefield?

There are really two main elements that precede the field work stage of a project, and that is trying to reconstruct the landscape of the battle. The other thing that feeds into that is any known evidence from the vicinity that's already been recorded. And usually for a battle, that might be metal detectorists who found,. oh, you know, 20 years ago, someone found a cannon ball over here, or someone found some musket balls in this field, or whatever it is. So al that evidence really then leads you to the starting point of this field. Seems like a likely spot. Let's do some surveying there, and we'll see what we find. And then you go