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Table 3. Area C, Test Unit Summary.
COUNT
European Artifacts
Aboriginal Ceramics
Lithic Artifacts
.DESCRIPTION
2 Dark green bottle glass
I Light green phannaceutica1 bottle glass
I Clear bottle glass
4 Kaolin pipe stems
I Combed yellow slipware rim sherd
3 Wrought nails
I L-head wrought nail
I Iron scrap. small
I Brick fragment, small
I Brushed sand tempered body sherd
I Medium incised sand tempered body sherd
I Medium incised sand tempered rim shetd
14 Plain sand tempered body sherds
3 Light chert thinning f1akes
I Quartz shatter
Area E
A cemetery containing two family groups, the Goldwires and the Morels, was located
on the bluff near the southeastern end of the Indian town. This graveyard contains ten
marked nineteenth-century graves and at least four unmarked graves. The death dates
inscribed on the Goldwire tombstones range from 1832 to 1837, whereas those of the
Morels range from 1864 to 1896. All ofthe marked graves date to the nineteenth century,
but based on the lack of artifacts found during the survey dating to that time period, it is
unlikely that anyone resided near the bluff during the nineteenth century. Several
unmarked grave depressions were noted and these may contain earlier burials. No early to
mid eighteenth-century tombstones are known to exist in Effingham County, and it was not
until the very late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries that stones were used to mark
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