Archaeological Investigations at Yourhaney Plantation (38GE18)

76Prehistoric artifacts consist of three Thoms Creek plain fine sand tempered sherds, two Pee Deecurvilinear complicated stamped medium sand tempered sherds, and one rhyolite flake fragment.Historic artifacts consist of 4.7 grams of brick rubble, two square shanked nails, six undecoratedwhiteware (1830-present) sherds, three aqua bottle glass, and one olive green bottle glass. Thepresence of whiteware suggests that the feature post dates 1830.FEATURE 69 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 69 is a square post, very similar in configuration to Feature 68. It measures 1.0 by 1.0feet and extends 1.3 feet into the subsoil. The fill consists of very dark grayish brown (10YR3/2)loamy sand. Artifacts four Thoms Creek plain fine sand tempered sherds, three residual sherds,one piece of Coastal Plain chert shatter, 13.9 grams of brick rubble, and two unidentifiablecorroded iron fragments. An OCR date of 1786 was obtained from this feature.FEATURE 70 – HISTORIC POST/NATIVE AMERICAN BURIALFeature 70 consists of a square historic post, which intrudes into an oval shaped pit containingNative American human remains. The post measures 1.0 by 1.0 feet and contains dark grayishbrown (2.5Y4/2) loamy sand, while the pit measures 4.4 by 2.2 feet and contains very darkgrayish brown (2.5Y3/2) loamy sand. Another presumably historic post 0.5 feet in diameter(Feature 71) was later found intruding into the burial. In the process of excavating the square postseveral prehistoric artifacts were encountered. We also encountered human teeth of a youngindividual and immediately terminated the excavation of this feature and notified Mr. Rick Kanaskiof US Fish and Wildlife Service. We were instructed to return the human bone to the feature. Theartifacts were retained for analysis and later re-interred by members of the Catawba Indian Nation.These artifacts consisted of one Thoms Creek plain fine sand tempered sherd, one Woodland plainmedium sand tempered sherd, one eroded decorated very coarse sand tempered sherd, andeleven residual sherds. The temporal affiliation of the Native American remains is unclear.FEATURE 74 – PREHISTORIC PITFeature 74 is an oval-shaped pit measuring 2.5 by 2.4 feet and extending 0.9 feet into subsoil.The fill consisted of very dark gray (10YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consisted of 20 plain mediumto coarse sand tempered sherds, one flow banded rhyolite interior flake, and one rhyolite flakefragment. The sherds are very thin, averaging 4.8 mms in thickness and appear to be from thesame vessel. Similar pottery was found at Heron Pond in Horry County (Carl Steen, personalcommunication 2005), which was attributed to the Thoms Creek phase.FEATURE 75 – HISTORIC POSTFeature 75 is a square post measuring 1.2 by 1.2 feet and extending 0.8 feet into the subsoil. Thefill consisted of very dark gray (10YR3/2) loamy sand. Artifacts consist of one Thoms Creek plainfine sand tempered sherd, two Woodland plain medium sand tempered sherds, four residualsherds, one rhyolite flake fragment, two hand wrought nails, one cut nail, one undecoratedcreamware (1762 – 1820), two handpainted pearlwares (1780 – 1830), one annular creamcolored ware (1790 – 1900), one burned unidentifiable ceramic, one clear bottle glass, and oneamber bottle glass. The presence of creamware, pearlwares, annular ware and the cut nailsuggest a turn of the 19 th century origin for this feature.