From May 16 to May 30, 2013, a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) field school conducted archaeological survey and testing at Scarlett’s Mound on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. The survey incorporated Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) by the LAMAR Institute, under the direction of Dan Elliott. The research was sponsored by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Ossabaw Foundation. This project was narrowly focused on defining the structure, function, and date of the modest earthen mound. As will become clear below, the first goal was met, while the others remain elusive.
Scarlett’s Mound is situated on the north end of Ossabaw Island (Figure 1) in secondary growth maritime forest vegetation; during the last half of the 19th century, much of this same area would have been cleared, as shown in Figure 2. The site was discovered by Elliott and Daniel Battle in 2006, and they eventually submitted the Georgia site file documentation for 9CH1350 and brought the site to the attention of the UTC researchers. Accompanied by the authors, several UTC archaeologists inspected the site on March 13, 2013.
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