Archeological Testing of Dockside 2, Fort Sumter National Monument

摘要

Fort Sumter National Monument plans to construct a tour boat docking facility, known as Dockside II, to replace the one located at Charleston's City Marina on the Ashley River. Plans for the property call for a National Park Service facility consisting of a visitor contact building, a parking lot and a dock to be constructed jointly with the South Carolina Marine Science Museum and a private restaurant. The archeological testing was proposed for purposes of confirming the findings of the historic research and locating any unrecorded cultural resources such as prehistoric archeological sites. The field investigations were limited to the National Park Service owned property. They consisted of monitoring the excavation of backhoe trenches and preparing maps, profiles, and photographs of all observations. It focused on the locating and identifying cultural resources, recording the stratigraphic data, and determining the associations and significance of any evidence found.