Southern Research was contracted by Mr. John D. Harrison, Jr. of Greenwood, South Carolina, who plans to develop a tract of land adjacent to the J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir, a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) property. The project area is located on the south side of Fishing Creek in Lincoln County, Georgia on the Chennault 7.5 minute USGS topographic quadrangle (Figure 1). Mr. Harrison wishes to construct a courtesy dock on USACE land, and the USACE determined that the dock may impact a potentially significant archeological site, 9Lc466. For this reason, the USACE required that the site be tested in order to determine its eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and to ascertain if the planned dock will have an adverse effect to the site. This work was conducted under Archeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA) Permit No. DACW21-4-01-4356. Site 9Lc466 was discovered in 1996 by Panamerican Consultants, Inc. (PCI) while conducting a cultural resources survey for the USACE, Savannah District; the final report of the project was submitted to the USACE by PCI in December 1997 (Buchner et al. 1997). Artifacts from the site indicated Early/Middle Woodland and Middle Mississippian components. Testing at Site 9Lc466 by Southern Research was designed to evaluate the NRHP eligibility of the site. Testing involved the excavation of 20 shovel tests and five 1 x 2 meter test units, as well as the collection of artifacts from the exposed shoreline.
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