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the archeological remains of the area to be flooded by the Clark Hill 

 Eeservoir. During the course of this work they located 128 sites, 

 70 of which will be covered by water when the dam is completed. 

 These sites included former village areas, camps, and stone-chipping 

 stations, with a few mounds. Materials collected from the surface 

 suggest the former presence of at least six sequent cultural groupings 

 in the area, including a considerable number which possibly antedate 

 the introduction of pottery making. Most of the sites are small and, as 

 a result of long-continued cultivation and erosion, few have any depth. 

 Three of them have been recommended for excavation. Two of the 

 latter are representatives of the type of culture which has been named 

 Stalling's Island, and the third is the Rembert Mound Group described 

 by William Bartram in 1791 and partially excavated by C. C. Jones 

 in 1878 and Cyrus Thomas in 1894 but never thoroughly studied. 

 These mounds belong in the so-called Lamar period in the South- 

 eastern cultural sequence. 



Miller and Caldwell completed their work at Clark Hill on May 31 

 and returned to Washington. They spent the remainder of the fiscal 

 year writing a preliminary report on the results of the survey and 

 preparing recommendations and estimates for an excavation program 

 in the basin. 



Mr. Solecki left Washington on March 8, 1948, for Hinton, W. Va., 

 where he established headquarters and began a survey of the Bluestone 

 Eeservoir basin on New Eiver. He completed the preliminary recon- 

 naissance on April 19 and left for Huntington, W. Va., to confer 

 with the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers. En route he stopped 

 at Charleston where, with the aid of Mrs. Eoy Bird Cook, State 

 Historian and Archivist, he checked the records and manuscripts in 

 the History and Archives Department of West Virginia for possible 

 information on the Indians and early Colonial settlers in the New 

 Eiver valley. He left Huntington on April 21, for Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 stopping to examine some archeological sites at Moundsville, W. Va. 

 At Pittsburgh he obtained information from the District Engineer, 

 Corps of Engineers, about the proposed West Fork Eeservoir in 

 the Monongahela Basin in north-central West Virginia. From Pitts- 

 burgh he proceeded to the West Fork Eeservoir area and made a 

 preliminary reconnaissance of the area that ultimately will be flooded. 

 This work was completed on May 6, and he returned to the Bluestone 

 area for more intensive investigation of the remains occurring there. 



Inasmuch as both of the reservoir projects surveyed by Mr. Solecki 

 are in mountainous regions, most of the traces of Indian and Colonial 

 occupation occur along the river bottoms. A total of 42 archeological 

 sites were found in the Bluestone area. These include mound groups, 

 village remains, rock shelters, one location where there are pictographs, 

 and four Colonial forts. At two of the sites, where potsherds were 



