Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Sweetwater Junction Tract, Aiken County, South Carolina

Author(s): John S. Cable

Year: 2001

Summary

"Palmetto Research Institute, Inc. conducted an intensive archaeological survey of a 64.I6-acre tract in Aiken County, South Carolina. The client was Mr. Harry Miller of B&H Land Company of North Augusta, who wishes to develop the property. An 8.26-acre Carolina Bay situated within the tract triggered the necessity for a Corps of Engineers permit, which in turn required compliance under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966...Both 30-meter interval shovel testing and controlled surface collection data collection methods were used to identify and define cultural resources on the tract. Surface collection was used as an adjunct to shovel testing because ground visibility was high due to recent land-clearing episodes."

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Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Sweetwater Junction Tract, Aiken County, South Carolina. John S. Cable. Irmo, South Carolina: Palmetto Research Institute. 2001 ( tDAR id: 391664) ; doi:10.6067/XCV88053W1

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Historic • PaleoIndian

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Glass

Site Name
38AK81 • 38AK833

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Isolated Artifact

Investigation Types
Records Search / Inventory Checking • Systematic Survey

General
Aiken County • Alkaline Glazed Stoneware • Annular Earthenware • Archaeological Survey • Biface Preform • Brier Creek Stemmed Projectile Point • Broken Flake • Coastal Plains Chert • Core Flake • Creamware • Decalcomania • Deptford Linear Check Stamped • End Scraper • Flake Blank • Flake Shatter • Flow Banded Rhyolite • Glazed Earthenware • Hardaway-Dalton • Majolica • Metavolcanic • Olive Green Glass • Porcelain • Quartz • Refined Industrial Earthenware • Rockingham • Salt Glazed Stoneware • Stoneware • Swanannoa Stemmed Projectile Point • Thinning Flake Show More

Geographic Keywords
Aiken County

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Postcontact Period • Precontact Period • Prehistoric Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.053; min lat: 33.365 ; max long: -81.63; max lat: 33.665 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina; Jonathan Leader

Contributor(s): Harry Miller; Keith Derting; Sharon Pekrul; Valerie Marcil; Ken Pinson; Carl Steen

Principal Investigator(s): John S. Cable

Prepared By(s): Palmetto Research Institute

Submitted To(s): B&H Land Company

Record Identifiers

Palmetto Research Institute Publications in Archaeology(s): 20

Notes

General Note: "The intensive survey of the Sweetwater Junction tract resulted in the identification of one new archaeological site, 38AK833, the further definition of a previously recorded site, 38AK81, and one isolated find. 38AK833 was recommended as not eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic component of this site is affiliated with an Irish Traveller enclave that began to occupy a trailer park on the site in the 1950s. Normally, sites of this age do not qualify as a cultural resource, but the special anthropological opportunity to gather information concerning the history ofthe Irish Travellers and also the general study of ethnicity overrode this requirement. The information of value was recovered during the intensive survey, obviating the need to do additional work on this component. Prehistoric remains on the site were concentrated in a 30 x 120-meter area on the southern rim of the bay. Components or sites of this nature have been the focus of research in the Aiken area for a decade. However, in this case the paleoenvironmental record of the bay has been seriously impacted by historic earth moving activities and sewage drainage. Without a good opportunity to link these data with the low-density prehistoric residues on the rim, the research potential of this component was considered to be very low."

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