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The site may have been a contmuation of site MMclT, since the two are 

 only 50 feet apart. 



Site JfliMclQ. — Farther upstream and on the south bank of the 

 Roanoke River lay another village site in the Clarksville Magisterial 

 District at 78°38'16" longitude, 36°40'53" latitude. A number of 

 fragmentary mussel shells were seen on the surface, a feature not 

 usual in the Roanoke River Basin. Sherds were not plentiful. A 

 number of broken human bones had been plowed up from shallow 

 graves. Testing failed to locate any of these graves, but it did show 

 that there were about 18 inches of undisturbed cultural deposit intact 

 below the plowed zone. 



Site li.li.Mc20. — At the head of Oak Hill Island, was a small camp- 

 site 50 feet long by 25 feet wide. The site is in the Clarksville 

 Magisterial District, Mecklenburg County, and is oriented at 78°38' 

 41" longitude, 36°41'44" latitude. This site was pointed out by 

 William Maxey, of Richmond, Va. No artifacts were recovered from 

 this site. Joffre Coe, collecting for the University of North Carolina, 

 stated that he recovered trade objects from this area, but none were 

 found by the present survey party. 



Site li.li.Mc21. — At the head of Fields Island, below Occaneechi Is- 

 land, were the remains of a small village site in a Avooded area locally 

 known as the "Old Skipwith's melon patch." The area had been 

 under cultivation for a number of years, but 20 or 30 years ago it 

 was allowed to return to nature and was badly overgrown with 

 thicket. This condition prevented collecting. Mr. Maxey identified 

 the site and described how various freshets had denuded the area in 

 times past. As a result of the big freshet of 1870, practically all the 

 topsoil as well as the vegetal coverage were swept away, leaving only 

 the base portion of the cultural deposit resting upon sterile red clay. 

 After the waters subsided a few complete clay vessels, a number of 

 projectile points, and some metal objects were picked up. Some of 

 this material, at the present time, is in the Maxey Collection in Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



Once more river deposits and vegetation accumulated over the area 

 only to be denuded again in 1940 when the entire island was affected. 

 After the waters had subsided additional material was collected, but 

 the whereabouts of it is unknown. 



A number of the local collectors and some historians believe this 

 island to be the site of the "lost" Occaneechi village. What they base 

 their statement upon is not luiown to iho, writer. 



Sites lilfMcB^ and liliMc2S. — Two sites in the Boydton Magisterial 

 District were located near the foot of Fields Island ; one, 44Mc22, is 

 a village site and the other, 44Mc23, is a campsite. Botli are of 

 very little archeological importance. The surfaces of both were well 

 sprinkled with sherds, chips of stone, and a few projectile points. A 



