Stephens, South Carolina in Berkeley County. The site with the latest occupation, 38BK75, is located between Lake Moultrie and the Santee River near the town of St.

The importance of the sites was thus well established, and in 2010 A Save America’s Treasures Grant was awarded to the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) and DAACS, allowing for the digitization, cataloging and re-analysis of all materials recovered from them. In addition to evidence of both trench earthfast structures and later post-in-ground structures, the sites contained an unprecedented amount of colonoware, low-fired earthenware pottery produced locally. The sites, located on former rice and indigo plantations, contained evidence of twenty-nine structures including domestic slave quarters, an overseer’s house, and several plantation outbuildings. The archaeological component, known as The Cooper River Historic Sites Investigation, included surface collection, metal detector survey, mechanical stripping, and excavation, and focused most intensively on three sites containing slave quarters: 38BK75 and 38BK76 both located on Yaughan Plantation and 38BK245, located on Curriboo Plantation. Army Corps of Engineers’ Cooper River Rediversion Canal Project. Project Investigators Pat Garrow and Tom Wheaton headed mitigation fieldwork in advance of the U.S. embarked on a groundbreaking project resulting in the earliest and most extensively excavated slave-related sites in the southeast. Excavation history, procedure, and methods.DAACS Conversations with Collaborating Scholars.

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