A one-day intensive reconnaissance survey of approximately one-quarter acre of land at the southeastern corner of the Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge was conducted in November 1981. Archaeological testing and surface inspection across this tract, known locally as the Bertram Fish Camp at Gould Landing, indicates that the fish camp represents a site remnant of 9Mci41, a very large, adjacent site which has been determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The prehistoric and contact period aboriginal occupations reflected by 9Mc141 contain research value of potential significance to the study of regional subsistence and settlement along the sea island ecosystems/ of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida; local subsistence and settlement; intra-site patterning; and cultural change over a period of approximately 3,000 years. The Bertram Fish Camp property, however, has been extensively eroded and disturbed through both natural and cultural means, and has been artificially braced and riprapped against continuing erosion on its creek side. Although artifacts and contexts are entirely congruent with less-disturbed deposits at 9Mci41, the fish camp property contains too little undisturbed and intact land surface to indicate its consideration as an eligible portion of 9Mci41. It is therefore considered a site remnant which is ineligible for the National Register.
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