They came with new technology to probe mysteries in a Revolutionary War battlefield.
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Using ground-penetrating radar, experts searched Saturday in Lincolnton for traces of a mass grave where 70 to 100 soldiers were buried after the Battle of Ramsour's Mill on June 20, 1780.
Terry Ferguson, program director for the geology department at Wofford College in Spartanburg watched thin, wave-like streaks crawl across a monitor screen.
The images were soil patterns reflected by radar signals shot four feet into the earth by something that looked like a lawnmower.
Ferguson focused on a 26-foot-square area that had been identified as a probable burial site by a conventional archaeological excavation in 1991. Results on Saturday were inconclusive, but the project lasts for another two weeks.
"This is the most historic site in Lincoln County," said Bill Beam, who chairs the county's Historic Properties Commission. "We have so much growth in this county and we need to make people aware of its history. They're part of the community now, and it's their history."
The battle at Ramsour's Mill began at daybreak when about 400 Patriots, or Whigs, attacked more than 1,300 Loyalists, also called Tories, who supported England. "
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