This report details the methods, results, and conclusions of limited testing at the Keheley Site (9CO153) in northern Cobb County, Georgia. The investigation was carried out by Garrow & Associates, Inc. on the 19th and 22nd of December, 1986, at the request of Cobb County. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the origin, function, and significance of the site in as timely a manner possible. Cobb County officials authorized investigation of the Keheley Site in order to more accurately assess its significance. The site's significance became a matter of immediate concern in light of the potential damage it could suffer as development progressed at the Keheley Bend-Unit H housing tract. Encroachment onto the archaeological easement containing the site appeared imminent, and before effective action could be taken, more conclusive data supporting the significance of the site was desired. Guiding the assessment process were hypotheses regarding the function and origin of this site proposed by former Cobb County Archaeologist, Lawrence Meier (Archeological Survey of Cobb County 1985). In effect, the primary hypothesis put forth by Meier was tested through these latest investigations. This hypothesis, in essence, proposed that the terraced knoll at the Keheley Site constitutes a prehistorically modified, natural topographic feature that functioned as "a ceremonial platform with astronomical associations" (Archeological Survey of Cobb County 1985).
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