On April 10, 1979, an archaeological survey was conducted for two short corridors of a proposed cable relocation associated with a relocation of a portion of the Seaboard Coast Line in the planned Richard B. Russell Reservior. These corridors will extend from an existing buried cable; the shorter of the corridors will extend for approximately 300 feet (91 meters) in a southeasterly direction from the existing line, and the longer segment will extend for approximately 500 feet (152 meters) east of the existing line. The width of each corridor is 50 feet (15 meters).
The topography crossed by these project corridors consist of steep, badly erroded uplands of the Savannah River. These uplands were heavily vegetated, and shovel cuts placed at approximately 20 feet intervals (6 meters) revealed hard red clay beneath a thin humic layer. No cultural material of any kind was noted in either of these two corridors, either 'on the surface or in the shovel cuts. It is clear that erosion and probable impacts such as logging and farming have destroyed any cultural resources which may have existed in the project area and cultural clearance is advised for the proposed co-axial cable relocation.
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