Project: Archaeological Data Recovery of Areas 3 and 4 Fig Island Channel Site, Savannah Harbor, Savannah, Georgia

Fig Island Channel once separated Hutchinson Island from Fig Island and was located across the Savannah River from the City of Savannah, Georgia. Shortly after the Revolutionary War, inhabitants of Savannah began the practice of abandoning derelict vessels in Fig Island Channel in an attempt to reduce shoaling in the Savannah River. Deepening and widening of the Savannah Harbor by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Savannah Harbor Navigation Project) have caused historic vessels once buried in Fig Island Channel to erode from the shoreline.

Because of the size of the Fig Island Channel Archaeological Site and the number of vessels to be recorded in a relatively short period of time. several independent archaeological consultant groups, in conjunction with Gulf Engineers and Consultants, Inc. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were subcontracted to conduct archaeological data recovery at the site. M-AT was contracted to conduct archaeological data recovery in Areas 3 and 4 including vessels 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 13 in two separate projects.

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