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to revert to nature. Its proximity to the site at the head of Occa- 

 iieechi Island (MPIal) conld have helped to settle various questions 

 dealing with both early historic and late prehistoric phases of the so- 

 called Siouan culture, but after a careful search of the surface and 

 from rather extensive testing, nothing of this sort was found. 



Site 44Mc6Ji,. — This village site was located on the south bank of the 

 Dan River and east of the mouth of Aarons Creek in the Clarksville 

 Magisterial District, 78°41'22" longitude, 36°40'55" latitude. This 

 same position had been occupied by the Old Moon Ferry Landing. 

 The ferry, which had been operated during the early stages of the 

 Buffalo Lithia Springs, a health spa and pleasure resort, had been 

 abandoned for a number of years, leaving practically no surface indi- 

 cations of its prior existence. Many of the local oldtimers in the 

 immediate vicinity well remember when the ferry was in operation. 



A large portion of the site had been under cultivation for years, 

 and it was in this section that a number of test pits were inserted. A 

 few pits were dug in the outlying uncultivated sections. Test pits in 

 both sections showed that a very thin layer of cultural material still 

 remained in the cultivated portion, which incorporated a number of 

 sand-tempered sherds, but that the other sections were sterile of cul- 

 tural indications. 



Site Jf4Mc66. — A Paleo- American campsite, belonging to the east- 

 ern variant of the "Folsom" culture, lay on the north bank of the 

 Roanoke River on the old Russell place, one of the early estates in the 

 vicinity of Clarksville, Va. It was located within the Clarksville 

 Magisterial District at 78°37'58'' longitude, 86°41'27'' latitude. 

 Stone chips covered an area roughly 200 feet long by 150 feet wide, 

 and the area lay at the base of low hills on a terrace adjacent to the 

 riA^er. A portion of the site extended above the 320-foot contour, 

 which does not fall within the reservoir limits. 



From the surface of the site several fluted points, snub-nosed scrap- 

 ers, and gravers, comparable to those found at the Lindenmeier site 

 in nortliern Colorado (Roberts, 1935 e, 1936 a, 1936 b, 1937 a, 1937 b, 

 1939 a), and a number of pentagonal points were recovered. Miller 

 (1948) earlier indicated that these pentagonal points were directly 

 associated Avith Eden type points and suggested that some sort of cor- 

 relation existed. Tlie site had been intensively eroded, and this had 

 greatly reduced the cultural deposit so that all rested upon a sterile 

 red clay pan. 



Site Jt4Mc71. — Sometime during the early days when the Avhite man 

 occupied this section of the Roanoke valley, a number of iron work- 

 shops were established to the north of and in the vicinity of Clarks- 

 ville, Va., and to the east of tlic Roanoke River in the Clnrlcsville 

 Magisterial District. At one of these sites, 78°37'48" longitude, 

 36°41'07" latitude, there was found, below the humus layer, a deposit 



