Archeological Survey of Proposed Construction on a University of Georgia Tract on Will Hunter Road, Clarke County, Georgia

The University of Georgia owns a large tract of mostly undeveloped land off of South Milledge Avenue, south of the Athens bypass and east of the Middle Oconee River. The University is developing an 8.3-acre, square parcel of this land for various uses, including most immediately a proposed University police storage building. The square tract is located on a wooded ridge crest about 0.25 miles east of the Middle Oconee River and 0.56 miles west of South Milledge Avenue (Figure 1). It is accessed by a relatively new extension of Will Hunter Road, which was bisected by

the Athens bypass in the 1980s. The extension of Will Hunter Road (shown in purple in Figure 1), leads to Athens-Clarke County’s Middle Oconee Water Reclamation Facility on the east side of the Middle Oconee River. The project tract is oriented about 155° and is a square almost exactly 600 ft (183 m) on a side, clearly marked in the field by a chain-link fence on all four of its sides, just inside of which is a mostly unimproved perimeter road (Figure 2). Two existing sets of structures occupy the southwest and northwest corners of the tract (Figure 2). To guide future development and insure that development will not adversely affect significant archaeological resources on University

property, the University of Georgia, through its Office of University Architects for Facilities Planning, contracted with Southeastern Archeological Services to conduct archival research and Phase I archeological field survey in the area of potential effect for the tract, which is considered all ungraded land within the boundaries of the enclosing fence. The survey was conducted on June 18 and July 2, 2018.