Interim Report Secondary Testing of Kings Bay Archaeological Sites, 9Cam171, Partial 166, 172, 174, 175, 177, 178, 179, and 180.

This document is a report on archeological fieldwork in progress at ten sites located on the Naval Submarine Support Base at Kings Bay, Camden County, Georgia. The fieldwork is a secondary testing program being conducted by the University of Florida, Department of Anthropology, under contract to the U.S. Navy. The Navy has requested a determination of eligibility for a Multiple Resource Area including all of the archeological sites on Navy-owned property. The partial secondary testing results described below will furnish additional information for evaluation of ten of the twenty-three sites under consideration. The secondary testing project provides for six months of fieldwork involving a crew of twenty-three persons followed by a nine-month analysis period. The field phase began November 5th, 1979 and is scheduled for completion April 30th, 1980. This research is full-scale excavation of a limited portion of each site in order to secure detailed definitions of resource character, condition, and variability. Research has been planned to allow at least partial testing of each site by the mid-point of the fieldwork phase. Thus the information contained in this report, though partial and preliminary, is the best currently available assessment of the sites. The four historic and six prehistoric sites shown in Figure 1, were selected for testing by the Navy on the basis of anticipated construction and dredging requirements. Because construction plans are not yet final, specific effects cannot be predicted; it is necessary to assume that every one of the sites under consideration will be adversely affected by base development. Thus, in the individual site evaluations which follow, mitigation recommendations are provided for each eligible site.