Southeastern Archeological Services, Inc., completed an archeological survey of a ca. 150- ac tract of land just south of Adel on which a proposed agricultural processing facility is to be constructed. The company proposing to construct the facility, Sanderson Farms, Inc. engaged Nutter and Associates, Inc. to conduct an environmental assessment of the tract, one facet of which was a survey for significant archeological resources. This report presents the results of that survey, which was conducted from April 20 through 23, 2004. The goals of the survey were to locate, delineate, describe and evaluate archeological sites in the project tract. At the time of our survey, most of the tract was in planted pines and about one third was composed of low lying wetlands unsuitable for habitation. We consulted the Georgia Archaeological Site Files and various archival and cartographic sources to determine if any known or suspected sites were recorded for the project area. None were. We then visually inspected the entire tract for evidence of sites and excavated about 280 shovel tests in transects across the wooded, dry portions of the tract to recover artifacts indicative of buried sites. No archeological sites were discovered. We did recover one projectile point that we classify as a Hernando point, which dates to the Early Woodland period (ca. 2500 to 2000 BP). This isolated artifact is not considered a site. It is our conclusion that the tract contains no archeological sites and thus presents no impediments to development.
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