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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 13 July 2009  Page Views: 7732

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Three Forks Marsh
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Palm Bay, FL
Latitude: 27.980000N  Longitude: 80.755W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
2
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Artificial Mound in Brevard County, Florida.
Three oval- shaped mounds about 100 feet long and six feet high. An estimation of age based on finds at the mounds is 5000 years old.

Note: Location given is for the Thomas O. Lawton Recreation Area, a park with parking and a picnic area. It is located approximately at the north-south center of the conservation area. The three mounds are somewhere within the northern half of the conservation area.

Note: See comment. Human burials stop levee building in wildlife conservation area.
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 45.4km N 359° Brevard Museum of History and Natural Sciences* Museum
 51.9km SE 137° Vero Beach* Ancient Village or Settlement
 62.9km N 352° Windover (Florida)* Barrow Cemetery
 99.3km N 355° Snyder's Mound* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
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Ancient mounds stall $15 million project by bat400 on Monday, 13 July 2009
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Submitted by coldrum ---

An archaeological find that includes several human teeth, bone fragments and tools -- some up to 5,000 years old -- has put the highly anticipated Lake Lawton on hold, again. The $15 million project to flood 7,000 acres at the end of Malabar Road is stalled indefinitely as federal officials negotiate with the Seminole and Miccosukee tribes over how to proceed.

About a month ago, excavators found several human teeth, human and animal bone fragments and tools within the area to be flooded for the lake. The items were found during the excavation of oval- shaped mounds about 100 feet long and six feet high in the northern half of the Three Forks Marsh Conservation Area.

"All three of them are very significant. They have lots of information and very good preservation," said David McCullough, an archeologist for the Army Corps of Engineers in Jacksonville.

Workers have been excavating layers of shell and other material by hand, with each layer exposing a different era of occupation. Lab analysis dates some of the finds back 5,000 years.

The Three Forks Marsh Conservation Area was the last major piece of the 20-year, $250 million Upper Basin restoration of the St. Johns River's headwater marshes. The project adds new levees, structures and flow-ways to move water across 13,737 acres of marsh.
As more farmland became available, the project had to be redesigned and new environmental studies completed. Then, federal funding shortages led to further delays, corps officials said.

The project was about 80 to 90 percent done, officials said, when the human remains were discovered. McCullough noted, however, that it's not a burial ground, and the unearthed remains were reburied. Other dug-up items -- fishhooks, awls to drill small holes with and tools fashioned from bones -- are being sent to a laboratory, McCullough said.

Corps officials plan to meet this month with tribe officials from the Seminoles in Florida and Oklahoma and the Miccosukee in Florida to negotiate how the federal agency ought to proceed.

The archeological findings have left uncertain when Lake Lawton will be flooded and the final cost, corps officials said.

The corps may be able to "mitigate" in order to finish the roughly 1,000-foot gap in the levee plug needed to flood Lake Lawton, Milam said.



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