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the archeological remains of the area to be flooded by the Clark Hill 
Reservoir. During the course of this work they located 128 sites, 
70 of which will be covered by water when the dam is completed. 
These sites included former village areas, camps, and stone-chipping 
stations, with a few mounds. Materials collected from the surface 
suggest the former presence of at least six sequent cultural groupings 
in the area, including a considerable number which possibly antedate 
the introduction of pottery making. Most of the sites are small and, as 
a result of long-continued cultivation and erosion, few have any depth. 
Three of them have been recommended for excavation. Two of the 
latter are representatives of the type of culture which has been named 
Stalling’s Island, and the third is the Rembert Mound Group described 
by William Bartram in 1791 and partially excavated by C. C. Jones 
in 1878 and Cyrus Thomas in 1894 but never thoroughly studied. 
These mounds belong in the so-called Lamar period in the South- 
eastern cultural sequence. 
Miller and Caldwell completed their work at Clark Hill on May 31 
and returned to Washington. They spent the remainder of the fiscal 
year writing a preliminary report on the results of the survey and 
preparing recommendations and estimates for an excavation program 
in the basin. 
Mr. Solecki left Washington on March 8, 1948, for Hinton, W. Va., 
where he established headquarters and began a survey of the Bluestone 
Reservoir Basin on New River. He completed the preliminary recon- 
naissance on April 19 and left for Huntington, W. Va., to confer 
with the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers. En route he stopped 
at Charleston where, with the aid of Mrs. Roy Bird Cook, State 
Historian and Archivist, he checked the records and manuscripts in 
the History and Archives Department of West Virginia for possible 
information on the Indians and early Colonial settlers in the New 
River valley. He left Huntington on April 21, for Pittsburgh, Pa., 
stopping to examine some archeological sites at Moundsville, W. Va. 
At Pittsburgh he obtained information from the District Engineer, 
Corps of Engineers, about the proposed West Fork Reservoir in 
the Monongahela Basin in north-central West Virginia. From Pitts- 
burgh he proceeded to the West Fork Reservoir area and made a 
preliminary reconnaissance of the area that ultimately will be flooded. 
This work was completed on May 6, and he returned to the Bluestone 
area for more intensive investigation of the remains occurring there. 
Inasmuch as both of the reservoir projects surveyed by Mr. Solecki 
are in mountainous regions, most of the traces of Indian and Colonial 
occupation occur along the river bottoms. A total of 42 archeological 
sites were found in the Bluestone area. These include mound groups, 
village remains, rock shelters, one location where there are pictographs, 
and four Colonial forts. At two of the sites, where potsherds were 
