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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound Alternative Name: shellmound SCR-7Country: United States Region: The West Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Santa Cruz Nearest Village: Davenport
Latitude: 36.981350N Longitude: 122.153917W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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The northern end of the oval overlooks the edge of the rocky coastal bluff and the southern end is outlined by agricultural fields. There is a rock face climbing up from the beach at Laguna Creek, like an ancient stairway toward the center of the mound.
Saved from Urban sprawl, Railroad, and Highway developement, this Ohlone shellmound SCR-7 is one of the most well preserved mound sites left in California. Other than the agricultural disturbance to the site around the mound, the only damage to SCR-7 is visible by the linear change vegitation over top a former excavation trench which dissects the center of the mound from the southside.
Archeology dates SCR-7 at 5,400 to 6,100 years ago (Jones & Hildebrandt1990). The remains of a flightless scoter bird(Chendytes lawi) were found at SCR-7, previously believed to have gone extinct 33,000 years ago based on archeological finds on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California.
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