This report details preliminary exploration by archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute at Hudson's Ferry, Georgia. These investigations were conducted in March 2003 by a volunteer crew that consisted of the landowners (the Donny Bostwick family), Judy Wood, Rita Elliott, and Daniel Elliott. One previously recorded site was augmented and a portion of it was subjected to systematic shovel test survey, metal detector reconnaissance, and a single 1 m by I m test unit. This site (9Sn 192) contains a well preserved buried deposit of British colonial period artifacts. Two other sites, 9Sn212 and 9Sn213, which were previously unrecorded, were briefly visited and GPS readings were taken of their boundaries. No excavation was undertaken at these two sites. All three sites are likely to contain Revolutionary War-era artifact deposits. Surface indications of earthworks and trenches were observed at two of the sites and oral information strongly suggests that a picket (or possibly a more substantial military presence) was located at the third.
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