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Multi-periodSite Name: Sapelo Island Shell Ring ComplexCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 18.499 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Sapelo, Georgia
Latitude: 31.497000N Longitude: 81.242W
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 |
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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 |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in McIntosh County, Georgia.
Shell mounds, Ancient settlement.
This Archiac site on Sapelo Island is dated to ~2100 BC. Three shell mound rings mark the site of an early settlement. The largest ring is more than 200 feet in diameter. Because of their irregularity and a lack of astronomical alignments, these rings are assumed to be an artifact of ancient "housekeeping."
The location is general for the island itself. Lost Worlds Georgia
University of Kentucky excavations
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