The Center for Low Country Studies was contacted about conducting test excavations at the site of a proposed signpost advertising the Great Savannah Exposition at Battlefield Park, Savannah, Georgia. After an orientation visit to the site on 8 August, a three member crew arrived on-site and commenced excavation. Work was terminated by mid-afternoon 9 August when the test pit was backfilled.
The excavation was undertaken by the Center as part of a long term study of old land surfaces in the vicinity of Battlefield Park. Since the site commemorates the allied French and American assault on Savannah in October 1779, the Center has been attempting to amass data about the original land surface for interpretive purposes. During the 1835 – 1950 period, a large amount of earth moving and filling took place under the aegis of the Central of Georgia Railroad. This filling presumably buried the eighteenth century land surface, leaving it intact for future study.
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