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longitude, 36°35'46'"' latitude and lies well up into the hills north of 

 the Eoanoke River in the Boydton Magisterial District. In a par- 

 tially cultivated area were the remains of chipping and shaping stone 

 artifacts. A number of crude spalls were scattered among the re- 

 mains. A number of large quartz points, in all stages of completion, 

 had been gathered by the farmer who owns the site, and the area is 

 gone over periodically by the local collectors. It is reputed that occa- 

 sionally burials had been plowed up during the course of cultivation 

 and their locations pointed out by the owner. We found no evidence 

 of any burials when the site was visited. 



In the uncultivated portion of the site a number of test pits were 

 made in the vicinity of piles of castoif rock, a position occupied by 

 the burials located earlier. We found nothing, as the hillside proved 

 much too rocky and we could get no depth. The whole hill appeared 

 to be solid quartzite covered over with a light mantle of soil. The 

 quartzite of the hill and that utilized by the aborigines in their chip- 

 ping corresponded so one can easily see why this chipping station was 

 established here. 



Site U^clS.—K small campsite at 78°32'55" longitude, 36°37'37" 

 latitude is located just to the right of the U.S. Highway 58 bridge 

 over the Roanoke River as one leaves Clarksville, Mecklenburg 

 County, Va. The site was first visited in the early part of March 

 1947, and again in April after a freshet. It was then found that the 

 freshet had completely destroyed the site and that the few badly 

 eroded sherds gathered earlier constituted the entire evidence of the 

 existence of this site. 



Site 4JfMclJf. — Upstream from site 44Mcl3, to the north of the 

 Southern Railways trestle, and extending northward to the mouth 

 of Island Creek was the largest and most important site in the whole 

 of the John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin. The site lies in the Clarksville 

 Magisterial District at 78°33'08'' longitude, 36°38'09" latitude and 

 on the north banli of the Roanoke River across from Occaneechi 

 Island. 



A group of Indians, supposedly the Occaneechi, were reported, in 

 1650, to be living on an island, which was inferred to be this island at 

 the confluence of the Dan and Staunton Rivers in the vicinity of 

 present Clarksville, Va. John Lederer, a German trader, M^as re- 

 ported to have visited them in 1G70. Later this group was reported 

 to be identified as belonging to the eastern branch of the Siouan (Hale, 

 1883; Mooney, 1894; and others), but recently this fact has been dis- 

 proved (Miller, 1957). Since they were the traders of the area, and 

 had had contact with the white man, it is important that any place 

 which they were supposed to have occupied be inve-stigated in order 

 to gain full information regarding the late prehistoric and early his- 

 toric time placement. 



