Charleston Underground Archaeological Services, LLC

Serving the Southeast since 2001

Archaeological Services

Lost Cemetery Location

Individual Grave Location and Marking

Location and Recovery of buried grave markers

Cemetery Mapping: Both traditional and utilizing GIS sub millimeter  

Historic cemetery preservation and restoration planning

Osteoarchaeology

Under very rare circumstances we offer DNA testing for family members of historic burials. This is conducted under burial specific DHEC licensing, and the strict supervision of a team of forensic experts lead by a Medical Doctor with over 50 years of experience. Testing is conducted utilizing the laboratory services of Sorenson Forensics, the world’s leader in private forensic DNA testing.    

Cultural Resource Management, CRM

Location of potential archaeological sites prior to construction and development

Ground Penetrating Radar Surveys to locate underground features such as wells, cisterns and building foundations.

Assisting private property owners with residential surveys of their property and instruction in the proper methods of excavation and documentation of features such as privy and cellar holes

Museum Services

Archaeological and archival consultations

Artifact Preservation Services

Accessioning / De-accessioning Consultation

Working field map of 344 mostly unmarked slave graves.
Locust Grove Plantation Circa 1665. Walkerton, VA
Unmarked grave that has a full concrete marker slab under the duff.
Cemetery at sunset.
Simple memorial to an unknown slave.
Always has been hard to keep the girls out of the sifter. this photo is from 2007
Three of the top field staff in America.
Surface Scan of a Low Country plantation.
Archaeological featurs often reach into odd places. Like under an 1850 freedman home in Charleston.
Complete dissolution of skeletal remains in acidic red clay.
A temporary grave marker from 1979.
GPR is an interesting language to learn.
Rowes of unmarked slave graves near Rock Hill SC.
Field staff working a grid with the GPR.
Historical stone markers from a late 1700’s to early 1800’s slave cemetery.

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Founding member of the Upstate Cemetery Preservation Alliance of SC

Corporate Member / Sponsor of Preservation South Carolina

Archaeological consultants to the Summerville Dorchester Museum, Summerville, SC

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