Knotts Creek-Belleville Archeological Site

The Knotts Creek – Belleville Archeological Site (Smithsonian trinomial: 44SK194) is a historically significant site along Knotts Brook in Suffolk, Virginia. The site includes evidence of Native American settlement during the Middle and Late Woodland periods (c. 500BC to 1600AD), and also includes evidence of English colonial settlement during the 17th century. The site was identified in the 1980s and partially excavated in the 1990s. Finds at the site include Delftware ceramics, evidence of a wooden palisade of English construction, and prehistoric stone tools and bone fragments.[2]

Knotts Creek – Belleville Archeological Site
Overview from U.S. Route 13
Nearest citySuffolk, Virginia
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.08000524[1]
Added to NRHPJune 10, 2008

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[1]

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