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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Moss Landing Shellmound Alternative Name: shellmound MNT-229Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 17.555 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Watsonville Nearest Village: Moss Landing
Latitude: 36.807627N Longitude: 121.783915W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Moss Landing Shellmound is an artificial mound in Monterey County, California. The remains of Moss Landing Shellmound MNT-229 lay on either side of highway 1 just south of th the bridge over Elkhorn Slough. First split in half by the railroad, later by highway 1 in place of the railroad, and the final chiping away at MNT-229 came to the south end of the shellmound for the foundation of the Moss Landing Power Plant.
Archeology dates the occupation of shellmound MNT-229 to be 6,500 to 8,000 years old. Most of the excavation has been done on the east side of Highway One. More than two hundred obsidian pieces were found at the site, traveling at the nearest distance from Mariposa or Napa County California.
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