On September 4 and 5, 1990, a Phase II testing project was undertaken on the Crump Site (GA04-53/9Un54) prior to county road widening construction. Testing was done by Forest Service archaeologists with Union County-loaned assistance from North Georgia Detention Center detainees to determine the significance of the site. Crump site is situated both on Union County right-of-way and adjacent National Forest land. The testing produced chipped stone tools and other artifacts of local milk quartz, fire-cracked quartz cobbles, non-local gray chert, and a few plain pottery sherds in or around two broad, 10-cm thick middens. Results of the project indicate that the portion of the site within the right-of-way, while significant, was not of such significance to warrant preservation in place and adjustment of the road alignment. However, it did retain significance which will require protection of the remaining portions of the site on the National Forest from disturbance.
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