Due to the preponderance of Woodstock types in the collected data, it has been concluded that the site is primarily from that period. The major cultural traits for the Woodstock period include grit terpered complicated stamp ceramics, triangular points, sherd discs, corn agriculture, small villages, palisaded and ditched towns, and temple mounds (Hally, 1975; Caldwell, 1950; Caldwell, 1953; Dickens, 1965). 9Lu(DOT)1 is considered eligible to the National Register at the state level of significance because the data it contains could provide further information on several questions. (1) Caldwell defined two foci of the Woodstock culture (Caldwell,n.d.). Neither Hally's data from 9Mu1O3 (Hally 1970) nor the data from 9Lu(DOT)1 (within the present limits of the sample) conforms to either foci. Indeed, the origins of the Woodstock ceramic types as related to the stamping tradition of North Georgia have never been completely delineated (Hally, 1975). (2) Palisaded and ditched towns - though found by Caldwell in the Allatoona and Buford reservoir surveys - have not since been identified (Hally, 1970). (3) Both Dickens and Hally (probably the most recent works on Woodstock) were unable to define any domestic structures at their sites.
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