<< Text Pages >> Skidaway Shell Mound - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States
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Multi-periodSite Name: Skidaway Shell MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 9.446 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Savannah, Georgia Nearest Village: Skidaway, Georgia
Latitude: 31.949000N Longitude: 81.031W
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 |
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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Ancient Settlement (and shell mound) in Chatham County, GA
375 ft long and 190 feet wide. This shell mound may date back to 1000 BC. Several shell mounds have been found on Skidaway and other nearby islands. This recent find has yet to be surveyed, but has attracted attention as a modern teenager hideout.
The location given is a general one of the island itself.
Shell mounds generally formed adjoining Archaic settlements (~3000 to 1000BC for this area), along both salt and fresh water sources. Some appear to have been collected and formed intentionally. Others are the artifact of settlement and discarding trash immediately outside the living area. In either case they are often a rich record of prehistoric cultures and their natural world.
Note: Volunteers remove rubbish from the shell mound, one of the largest on the Georgia coast. Linked to photos.
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