pip. No^"2lY' J0^3^ H- KERR RESERVOIR BASIN — MILLER 277 



Mostly from the sherd-strewn surface and a few from our test pits, 

 we managed to salvage 292 potsherds. The surface collection was made 

 at random and no selectivity was practiced. 



At the time we were collecting the sherds, we noted that there was 

 very little variation in exterior surface treatments. This was verified 

 later in the laboratory when the collection was studied. We found 

 that we had collected 124 plain which corresponded to our Clarksville 

 Plain type, 123 combed belonging to this same series, and 45 textile- 

 impressed, another member of the Clarksville Series. The heavily 

 sand-tempered and contorted paste further corroborated our judgment 

 in placing all of the sherd material witliin the Clarksville Series. 



SOUDAN COMPONENT 

 (44Mc54) 



One mile west-southwest of the small town of Soudan, Va., on Buck- 

 horn Creek, we located a small village site, 44Mc54. At the time this 

 site was visited it was part of an old cornfield and since the crop had 

 not been picked the site was not tested. 



From the surface between rows we made a random surface collec- 

 tion. We found a few chert points, a single quartz point, and 110 

 potsherds. All of the stone tools were rather crude and appeared to 

 be unfinished. 



The breakdown of the 110 sherds is as follows : 102 textile-impressed 

 and 8 plain. The textile-impressed sherds corresponded exactly to 

 the type established for Clarksville Textile-Impressed; while the 8 

 plain sherds were rather small and badly eroded, the paste character- 

 istics would indicate that thej?-, too, belonged to the Clarksville Series. 



ROANOKE COMPONENT 

 (44Mcl) 



Site 44Mcl, a village site just below the main axis of the John H. 

 Kerr Dam and opposite the head of Buggs Island at 'r8°l7'43''' longi- 

 tude, 36°36'17'' latitude, Boydton Magisterial District, is approxi- 

 mately 200 feet long by 25 feet wide. At the time of the survey it was 

 100 feet from the edge of the Eoanoke River in an old cornfield, but 

 with the construction activity it was destroyed when it became a part 

 of the borrow area for soil to be used in the wing dam of the main 

 structure. 



We found a number of small eroded sherds both on the surface and 

 in testing the site, as well as a sherd discoidal and a few stone chips. 

 From the paste characteristics we would place this site in the Hyco 

 series. 



