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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Nacoochee Alternative Name: 9Wh3Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 43.679 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Atlanta, GA Nearest Village: Helen, GA
Latitude: 34.683500N Longitude: 83.7089W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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sitedowser saw from a distance on 1st Jul 0008 There's a second much larger mound about 1/2 mile ESE- low but appears to be acre or 2 in size, est. 10 ft. high... on private land, viewed from Hwy. about 700-800 ft. away.
In the 1870's this mound was described as being 16 feet high. Numerous stone box graves had been found by plowing and amateur excavations and pot hunting close to the mound. A formal excavation was conducted in 1915 by the Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology. The mound was almost completely excavated and revealed 75 sets of human remains.
They had been buried over a a substantial period of time, with the most recent burials having occurred after European contact as shown by the grave goods.
The mound was then reconstructed to resemble the original. It can be seen from nearby roadways, but there is no access to the public.
In 2004, site survey conducted by the University of Georgia found artifacts (tools, cermaic shards) that indicated the mound had been constructed and used for later burials from the Early Middle Woodland Cartersville Phase and most intensively during the Mississippian period from 1350 to 1600 CE during the Lamar Phase.
Part of the Sautee Valley Historic District, National Register of Historic Places.
Sources:
Mark Williams, "Nacoochee Revisited: The 2004 Project". University of Georgia, Lamar Institute. 2004.
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