Addendum to Management Summary Archeological Testing for the Proposed U.S. 80 Widening GDOT Project STP-005-3(20) Laurens County, Georgia

The Georgia Department of Transportation requested that Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc. excavate two 2x2 m test units on site 9LS 119 in order to provide more information that could be used to assess the site's eligibility status and to assess potential adverse effects to the site from proposed highway widening. The products of this phase of work were to be an addendum to a previously produced management summary (Price and Cowie 2000), a Request for Determination of Eligibility and an Assessment of Effects report. This document is the Addendum to the Management Summary. The site is a large lithic reduction and quarrying site located on a ridge slope and alluvial terrace on the south side of Sandy Ford Branch, about 2 km west of Dublin, the county seat of Laurens County (Figure 1). As will be outlined below, the site was originally recorded in 1993 as eligible to the National Register, and a small portion of it (on the north side of U.S. Highway 80) was archeologically and geomorphologically tested in February 2000 by Southern Research (Price and Cowie 2000). The Price and Cowie management summary, including an appendix by geomorphologist David Leigh, indicated that two portions of the site, an alluvial terrace remnant and a colluvial slope, held research potential because of potentially buried and sealed deposits. The site was recommended as eligible to the National Register because of this research potential. In an Assessment of Effects document prepared in February 2000 (no author) the project was deemed to have an adverse effect on the portion of the site north of U.S. Highway 80. Proposed mitigation included excavation of 30 to 36 m2 in the two preserved portions of the site.