An Underwater Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Marina on Battery Creek

Summary

This report presents the results of underwater archaeological survey investigations conducted in June 2008. Brockington and Associates, Inc., of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, contracted Diversified Wilbanks, Inc., to conduct an underwater cultural resources survey of Battery Creek adjacent to the land in Port Royal, South Carolina, formerly occupied by the South Carolina State Ports Authority. The survey was pursuant to the development of this area into a city marina for the town of Port Royal, South Carolina.

This addendum report will be combined with Cultural Resources Survey and Testing of the Port Royal Harbour Redevelopment Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina (in process, Jateff et al. 2008), as approved.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Port Royal   •
• Beaufort County, SC

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1702 to 1711 (Land granted to John Pinny)

Calendar Date: 1711 to 1750 (site of James Watson's indigo plantation)

Calendar Date: 1750 to 1850 (Battery Plantation)

Calendar Date: 1850 to 1890 (Owned by Port Royal Railroad Co.)

Calendar Date: 1890 to 1950 (Owned by the Charleston and West Carolina Railroad)

Calendar Date: 1950 to 2008 (Owned by the Atlantic Coastline Railroad)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Steve Howard; Darrell Taylor

Field Director(s): Ralph Wilbanks

Sponsor(s): Thomas and Hutton Engineering Co.; The South Carolina State Ports Authority

Prepared By(s): Brockington and Associates, Inc.

Notes

General Note: The two sites 38BU338 and 38BU482 were reevaluated while the project tract was being evaluated. No artifacts are noted since the report stated that all scatter and artifacts which had been previously mentioned have either shifted with sediment or have been recovered by recreational divers.

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