Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975

Summary

The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey was contracted to conduct the archaeological survey. The majority of the field work took place between 1973-1975 around Beech Fork Lake in Cabell, Mason, and Wayne Counties, West Virginia. Site numbers for the project include; 46CB12, 46MS49, 46WA22, 46WA24, 46WA25, 46WA26, 46WA28, 46WA35, 46WA36, 46WA37, 46WA38, 46WA39, 46WA54, 46WA55, 46WA57, 46WA58, 46WM2, 46WM12, and 46WM20. The project's intention was to result in the construction of a multipurpose facility serving for flood control, recreation, and fish and wildlife (Baker and Fowler 1975).

The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include archival photographs, artifact catalog, artifact photographs, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include document listing folder, initial data collection, oversized material labels, photographic material labels, records removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

Cite this Record

Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975. ( tDAR id: 447998) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8447998

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.577; min lat: 38.194 ; max long: -82.248; max lat: 38.385 ;

Record Identifiers

Contract Number(s): PX-4000-4-0802

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include archival photographs, artifact catalog, artifact photographs, artifact report, finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include document listing folder, initial data collection, oversized material labels, photographic material labels, records removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the finding aid.

Source Collections

Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 collection stored at Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site.

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Datasets

  1. Artifact Catalog, Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 (2019)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Alexandria laboratory in September 2014. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through the archaeological contracting firms, Cogstone-Berger, JV. The procedures employed to re-house the archaeological material from the...

  2. Oversized Materials Spreadsheet, Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 (2019)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    This is the oversized material spreadsheet for the Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 collection.

  3. Photographic Materials Spreadsheet, Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 (2019)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    This is the photographic material spreadsheet for the Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975 collection.