Archaeological Resurvey of a Portion of Corridor and Archaeological Site 124-J3A.1 Woodstock-Alpharetta Proposed Transmission Line Cherokee and Fulton Counties, Georgia

A pedestrian resurvey was conducted on approximately 1.7 miles of the proposed Woodstock-Alpharetta Transmission Line Corridor by Patrick H. Garrow, of Garrow & Associates, Inc. on August 17, 1984. That resurvey was conducted at the request of Oglethorpe Power Corporation, and Mr. Garrow was accompanied in the field by Mr. Michael Gibbs and Mr. Sonny Brown. The investigated corridor segment extended from Providence Road, on the east to Lackey Road on the west, and included a number of knolltops that appeared to contain potential for placement of archaeological sites. Further, the single archaeological site (124-J3A.1) identified during the previous investigations on this corridor (Webb 1984) was located within the resurvey segment. The purpose of the resurvey was to determine the adequacy of the field methods employed during the original investigation, and to further gather data concerning archaeological site 124-J3A.1. The resurvey was conducted without the use of subsurface assessment units, and instead was intended to check the nature of the landforms traversed by the corridor. The resurvey of the 1.7 mile corridor segment revealed that the terrain in that section is very rugged, and that the knolls traversed by the corridor are steep sided with narrow knolltops. Further, the corridor crossed the majority of the knoll systems on side slopes, and the potential for placement of prehistoric and/or historic archaeological sites along the 1.7 miles was generally low. Three isolated shovel cuts and one section of concentrated shovel cuts had been placed within this segment by investigators from Claude Terry and Associates (Webb 1984: Figure 3). One isolated shovel test was placed on a narrow knolltop adjacent to and west of Providence Road. That area contained one of the few knolltops traversed by the corridor, but still appeared to be too narrow and rugged to have contained an archaeological site. Two additional isolated shovel- cuts were placed by the original investigators adjacent to and east of Arnold Mill Road. The resurvey generally validated the survey strategy used on that segment by the original investigators, and no additional archaeological resources were noted in the resurvey.