Ye Pleasant Mount: 1989 1990 Excavations - Open site which ...

Table 19, Continued. Summary of Euro-American Artifacts found at Other
Historic Indian Settlements in the Savannah River VaHey.
ACTIVITIES GROUP
lead bale seal
tools made from bottle glass
metal fish hook
lead fishing weight
Cherokee Raes Ck.
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Pallachacolas Mt. Pleasant
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(Sources: Kelly and DeBaillou 1961; Smith and Williams 1978; Kelly and Neitzel 1961a, 1961b; Elliott
1984; Smith et aI. 1988;Crook 1990; Floyd 1937; Caldwell 1948; Ferguson 1971; Bolen 1990)
Summary
As a result of work conducted by the LAMAR Institute at the Mount Pleasant site, we
now have a better understanding ofthis important historical landmark. During the early- to
mid-eighteenth century the site served as a village for the Yuchi Indians, a base of
operations for a sizeable contingent of British traders, and a fortification and base of
operations for more than a dozen rangers. Archaeological survey has delineated the
horizontal boundaries of the site. Excavations on one portion of the site, known as Trader
Point, have provided a more detailed glimpse of life there during the frontier period of
southern history. This is a fascinating period of America's past which has received too
little attention in Georgia. This project explores and opens new avenues for eighteenthcentury
historical archaeology research.
Work conducted thus far at Trader Point has identified an enormous potential for
research. A rich deposit ofmaterial culture, both Indian and Euro-American, is contained
within a shallow midden, and there are many intact subsurface features that contain
important information on subsistence, architecture, and the material culture of the
eighteenth-century occupants ofMount Pleasant awaiting discovery.
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