Final Phase I Archaeological Survey of the Proposed North Lowndes Regional Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Lowndes County, Georgia

This report documents the Phase I archaeological survey investigations conducted to locate and record any cultural resources within the proposed approximately 350 acre North Lowndes Regional Wastewater Treatment Facilities project area, Lowndes County, Georgia. This research was conducted by Garrow & Associates, Inc. under contract with the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners. The survey area is situated entirely in dissected uplands found associated with the Coastal Plain physiographic province of southern Georgia. Phase I field investigations were completed in the project area between March 12and 15, 1991. All potentially archaeological-sensitive areas were identified and examined by a combined systematic pedestrian walkover and subsurface shovel testing program during these investigations. As a result of the excavation of 76 shovel test pits and a pedestrian walkover, a total of 10 archaeological sites and 19 isolated artifact locations were recorded. The North Lowndes 1, North Lowndes 6, North Lowndes 7, and North Lowndes 8 sites contained lithic and ceramic sherd scatters primarily composed of agatized coral and Coastal Plain chert tools and debris and plain, cord marked, and several varieties of stamped ceramics associated with Native American occupations assignable to Archaic period (ca. 8,000-1,000 B.C.) and Woodland period occupations. The North Lowndes 4, North Lowndes 5, and North Lowndes 9 sites contained historic architectural remains and light to dense artifact scatters comprised of glass, rusted metal, and ceramics, as well as other materials associated with the historic occupation and utilization of the project area (mid nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries). The North Lowndes 2 and North Lowndes3 sites contained small historic trash scatters, and North Lowndes 10 is a small family cemetery. The location of all of the sites, as well as any features encountered at them, were recorded and site descriptions generated. Based on these observations, an assessment of the potential significance of each site has been generated.