In June, 1984, New World Research, Inc. conducted a cultural resources survey of a 98-acre disposal tract in Elbert County, Georgia, for the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Savannah District. The project area is situated within the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area in the uplands to the west of the Savannah River. The 98-acre tract was investigated by pedestrian survey along a series of transects and the excavation of six subsurface shovel tests. Investigations showed the area to have been heavily disturbed and the stratigraphic profiles in elevated portions of the tract almost uniformly exhibited a high degree of erosion. One isolated quartz flake was found in the study tract, but no other evidence of cultural activity is present in the survey area proper. An historic artifact scatter with an associated partial structural foundation was found outside the survey area, but this property was subjected to only a cursory examination so no recommendations, save avoidance, are offered.
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