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NRHP. No evidence of another revisited site could be located and so its status was revised to ineligible. The third site in Bay St. Louis revisited by archaeologists remained unevaluated because of limited access.
Partial projectile points (0-AD 700) from site in Hancock County (Ijzftj f FEMA phot(^2012). Marksville Ceramics (AD 400-700) recovered from site in Hancock County fright)	' - -
site in Hancock County (FEMA photo 2012).
Archaeologists completed fieldw^ric in all four of the proposed survey areas in Diamondhead.
The four survey areas centered around five previously recorded sites and one high probability \ . ■ v area.„ The known sites had previously produced prehistoric Archaic - Mississippian period
materials^ as well as historic deposits from 19th and 20th century habitations.
In the course of these investigations, archaeologists recorded three previously unknown sites in Diamondhead. One of the sites is a multi-component site that consisted of post-Archaic and 19th through 20th century historic occupations, the other two sites are scatters of prehistoric and historic materials. All of these sites are potentially eligible for the NRHP.
Two of the five known sites in Diamondhead could not be evaluated because of limited rights-of-entry and construction of a bulkhead and a house destroyed a third site. These sites remained
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