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SURVEY EEPORT 



The survey was conducted either on foot or with the aid of a jeep ; 

 thus it was possible to visit all sections of the reservoir area. Recent 

 aerial maps furnished by the U.S. Corps of Engineers were used dur- 

 ing the survey and were of supreme value in that they designated 

 heavily wooded sections wherein survey was next to impossible. 



The survey of the John H. Kerr Reservoir area and its immediate 

 environs disclosed 94 sites of archeological and historical importance. 

 The archeological sites consisted of 34 village are;is, 3 Paleo-American 

 campsites, 14 Neo-Indian campsites, and 41 flint workshops. The 

 historical sites consisted of two areas from which quantities of scrap 

 iron, clinkers, and discarded iron objects and tools were recovered. 

 The two historical sites are assignable to the colonial period when 

 large plantations were in existence. The majority of these sites are 

 situated within the reservoir area while eight of them fringed the 

 basin. These impinging sites consisted of 5 campsites, 1 village site, 

 and 2 flint workshops. Only 86 sites were directly affected by the 

 flooding of the reservoir, while the 8 others were indirectly influenced 

 by this condition. 



Wlierever possible, a representative collection of artifacts was 

 gathered from the surface of each site. These collections were later 

 studied in an attempt to determine the relative cultural-age linkage. 



SITE DESCRIPTIONS 

 irECKLENBUKG COUNTY, VA. 



Site l^lfMcl? — A short distance below the clamsite on the north bank 

 of the Roanoke River, 78°17'54" longitude, 36°36'17" latitude, in the 

 Boydton Magisterial District, is located a small village site. This 

 site was destroyed by the borrow pit from which the soil was taken 

 to build the lateral dykes to the dam. When it was visited the ground 

 was frozen, so no test pits were sunk into the site. 



Although a number of sherds, a pottery discoidal made from a 

 sherd, and a few stone chips were recovered from the surface, it was 

 found that all sherds were unpainted, contained sand temper, with 

 surface treatments consisting of cord- wrapped stick (fabric-marked), 

 cord-wrapped paddle, textile impressed, combed, and what looked to 

 be simple-stamped. Only one very small sherd was decorated with a 

 fragment of an incised decoration of some sort, but the sherd was 

 much too small to distinguish what the decorative motif actually was. 



* Site designations used here are trinomial In character consisting of symbols for State, 

 county, and site. The State is indicated by the first two numbers, according to the nu- 

 merical position of the State name in an alphabetical list of the United States ; thus, for 

 example, 44 designates Virginia and 31 North Carolina. Counties are designated by a 

 two-letter abbreviation ; for example, Mc refers to Mecklenburg, Ha to Halifax, etc. The 

 final number refers to the specific site within the indicated State and county ; thus, 

 44Mcl indicates the No. 1 site in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. 



