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Page 31 RESULTS OF REVIEW AND COMPLIANCE CASES ENHANCE UNDERSTANDING OF STATE' S ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES The following articles by members of the OSA highlight review and compliance cases that have added to the knowledge and understanding of history and prehistory on a regional basis . COASTAL PLAIN Cemetery Mapping in Beaufort As part of the HPO ' s commitment to provide technical assistance to governmental agencies , OSA historical archaeologist John Clauser documented the traditionally African American section of the Ocean View Cemetery in Beaufort, North Carolina. The city, having agreed to provide maintenance for the cemetery, discovered that no map of burials was available . Over the years local funeral homes placed dozens of graves in the cemetery but there was no overall plan . That oversight , combined with the length of time the cemetery has been in use , left a collection of clustered burials , isolated graves , and numerous unmarked burials . Further , lack of records made management of the cemetery nearly impossible and could have lead to accidental disturbance of burials . Clauser spent six days in the field mapping marked graves, recording names and birth and death dates , and locating unmarked burials . His maps filled twenty-one sheets of graph paper and depict more than five hundred graves . With help from the Beaufort Planning Department he will next produce a large-scale cemetery map that can guide placement of future burials and assist individuals in locating specific graves in the cemetery . Cooperative efforts between local and state agencies and the use of traditional archaeological methods to assist with strictly modern issues are becoming more common at the HPO . While projects such as the Beaufort Cemetery are unusual , small cemetery mapping and grave- location projects for local government are more common and increasing . -John W. Clauser Island View Subdivision Excavations at site 31CR304 , within the proposed Island View subdivision between Morehead City and Swansboro , were conducted by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington under the direction of David C . Jones . Archaeologists found postmold patterns for two longhouses and numerous other cultural features , including hearths and cooking and storage pits . Most of the artifacts are pottery fragments , which place the main occupations during the Late Woodland cultural period , between A . D . 900 and 1400 . Based on other research in the region it is thought that these Late Woodland people were Algonkian peoples , similar to those who occupied Roanoke Island at the time of the infamous " Lost Colony " affair . .