CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF THE ELLIOTT TRACT, DORCHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA CHICORA RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION 404 CULTURAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF THE ELLIOTT TRACT, DORCHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA Prepared By: Nicole Southerland, Sarah Fick, And Michael Trinkley, Ph.D., RPA Prepared For: Mr. Kurt Sandness The Sintra Corporation PO Box 2109 Mount Pleasant, SC 29465 CHICORA RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION 404 Chicora Foundation, Inc. PO Box 8664 Columbia, SC 29202-8664 803/787-6910 Email:
[email protected] www.chicora.org March 19, 2004 This report is printed on permanent paper ∞ ©2004 by Chicora Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or transcribed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of Chicora Foundation, Inc. except for brief quotations used in reviews. Full credit must be given to the authors, publisher, and project sponsor. ABSTRACT This study reports on an intensive cultural test fill was screened through ¼-inch mesh and the resources survey of a 55 acre tract in the southeast shovel tests were backfilled at the completion of portion of Dorchester County, near the town of the study. A total of 282 shovel tests were Summerville, South Carolina. The work, excavated along 27 transect lines. Additional conducted for the Sintra Corporation, is meant to testing was performed for the identified site. assist this client in complying with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the As a result of these investigations, one regulations codified in 36CFR800. prehistoric site, 38DR224, and one isolated find, 38DR00, were identified.