The survey reported here was designed to locate archeological sites in the areas of potential effect of three Laurens County bridge replacement projects proposed by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). An attempt to evaluate located resources' eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) was also made, to the limited extent possible from a few shovel tests within the projects' narrow corridors. The survey located two prehistoric archeological sites, one in the Big Flat Creek project area and one in the Pughes Creek project area. The portions of each site within the projects' areas of potential effect were sampled extensively. Based on these samples, the site segments under scrutiny were deemed insignificant for archeological research. The eligibility of the sites on the whole remains unknown, due to the methodological limitations of testing only within the project corridor. However, the sampled portions of the two located sites would not contribute to NRHP eligibility. Therefore Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. recommends that none of the three proposed bridge replacement projects will have any adverse effect upon significant archeological resources.
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