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9CY(DOT)5, Unpublished Field Notes Volume III

Report Number
5862
Year of Publication
1986
County
Abstract

Site 9Cy(DOT)5 represents a low density Late Paleoindian surface lithic scatter. The site is located in Bluffton, Georgia, east of US 27/SR 1 and south of CR 130 in an agricultural field. The site is situated on an eroded ridgetop overlooking a wetland area partially within the required right-of-way for GDOT project EDS-27(148), Clay County. A total of six lithic artifacts including one chert Dalton projectile point/knife was recovered from a surface area of approximately 10 meters X 20 meters. No artifacts were recovered in four shovel tests excavated to sterile subsoil within and adjacent to the surface scatter. Soils present in shovel test excavations consisted of a