9Pm211 is a north facing rockshelter, composed of rounded granite boulders, located at the head of Riley Shoals of the Oconee River near its west bank. The total excavated floor area is about 7 meters by 4 meters maximum, although the border is quite irregular. The shelter is not deep and would probably be better described as a rock overhang rather than an actual shelter. Only a small portion of the floor area would actually be out of the rain. The midden in the base of the shelter was overlain by recent alluvial red clay at depths varying from 30cm to 1.5 meters.
The nearest channel of the Oconee is some 40 meters to the N-E of the shelter. The southern rip of the levee upon which 9Pm212 is situated between 9Pm211 and the present river. The rocks back of the shelter are only partially exposed from the high hill behind them.
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