A Confederate Encampment at Cross Hollow, Benton County

Relic hunting, the goal of which is to find valuable or rare artifacts, is a far cry from archaeology, where the goal is to learn something new about the past by careful excavation, mapping, and thorough documentation of all recovered materials. Since 1999, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Research Station of the Arkansas Archeological Survey has been conducting an archaeological resources survey of Cross Hollow, an area in Northwest Arkansas extending for two miles from the intersection of Old Wire Road and Cross Hollows Road east to Monte Ne on Beaver Lake in Benton County.