Intensive Cultural Resources Survey of the Carsons Tract

In August 2007, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural
resources investigation of the Carsons Tract in Beaufort County, South Carolina. The project
tract is located southwest of Beaufort, east of SC Route 280, overlooking the marshes of Battery
Creek. This survey includes a review of the history of land ownership and use through public
documents, a review of the previous investigations within one mile of the project tract, and the
results of the excavation of shovel tests at 30-meter intervals over the tract. This cultural
resources survey was undertaken to provide information concerning the kinds of cultural
resources present on the tract and how future use of the tract may affect these resources. This
cultural resources survey provides compliance with current state and federal regulations
regarding the management of cultural resources in the Coastal Zone of South Carolina as
administered by the regulatory program of the South Carolina Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management.