A cultural resources survey prior to a proposed land exchange near the Dial community in Fannin County produced one small lithic scatter on a knoll top above the Toccoa River and a small portion of a larger known site which was mostly on adjacent private property. The lithic scatter was judged not significant. The National Forest portion of the larger site was tested, producing quartz and chert tools and lithic debris, and ceramics bearing stamped decorations, few of which were large enough to type confidently. The material from surface collections and the test pits indicated intensive occupations during the Middle Archaic through the early Mississippian (Early Etowah) periods. A possible lithic workshop may have been located on the National Forest parcel. All material was retrieved from a heavily-disturbed plow zone which had been deep-plowed and subjected to intensive surface collecting over the past two generations. Because of those disturbances, the site no longer fulfills 36 CFR 60 criteria for significance, and thus cultural resources clearance is recommended for the proposed exchange.
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