Wannabe Archaeologists Should Hit Up the Inn at Palmetto Bluff

Where: 476 Mount Pelia Rd [map], Bluffton, SC, United States, 29910

7/06/2006 at 4:08 PM
Tags: Hotels

Most people getaway to the Inn at Palmetto Bluff for the golf on a Jack Nicklaus-designed course.

But there's more to this place than just golf and sipping mint juleps on a front porch. The hotel allows its guests to participate in digging up the surrounding area for artifacts from the land's previous inhabitants, which include the Altamaha and Yemassee Indian tribes, African slaves who worked the plantations and the wealthy banking family who owned the place in the early 1900s.

Some guests have found arrowheads, ceramics, animal bones and even a bottle of 1899 Chateau Lafite.

Of course, you can't just tear up the yard for free. The cost of being an archaeologist for the day is $100 and the cottages at the place start at $450.

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