Building foundation and utility trench excavations in the vicinity of the Kings Bay Plantation Site (9CAM172), Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Camden County, Georgia, were monitored by an archaeologist between June and October, 1984. Monitoring involved inspection of soil profiles in over 3,000 meters of trenches and pits. Twenty-five features and two groups of human bones were recorded and excavated.
The human bones were fragmented and recovered from disturbed context. At least five individuals were represented; three were probably prehistoric American Indian, though the possibility that they may have been of European or African origin cannot be completely ruled out.
Of the twenty-five features recorded, only one contained a significant concentration of artifacts. Feature 1, a late eighteenth to early nineteenth century wood-lined privy pit, yielded over one hundred nearly whole or reconstructible vessels, including creamware and pearlware ceramics, wine bottles, drinking glasses and medicine bottles. When more detailed data become available from the Kings Bay Plantation Site and from a tabby-lined privy pit excavated during the 1981 mitigation, these should be compared with the information gathered from Feature 1.
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