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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sandy Creek terrace complex - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The South

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 07 March 2014  Page Views: 5704

Multi-periodSite Name: Sandy Creek terrace complex
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Athens
Latitude: 34.033889N  Longitude: 83.376667W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
3 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
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Sandy Creek terrace complex submitted by dodomad : The walls laid out iin a V shape Image copyright: Richard L. Thornton, Architect (Vote or comment on this photo)
Richard L. Thornton writes: A recent discovery of ancient stone-walled terraces, stone cairns and the apparent ruins of structures on publicly owned land. North of Athens, GA in Sandy Creek Park

Through the years, photographer Mack Dana Jones has been increasingly intrigued by a complex of ancient stone retaining walls, apparent ruins of stone structures, and in the northeastern corner of the park, well over a hundred fieldstone cairns. There are apparently two types of retaining walls. Some are skillfully laid, from 50 to 200 feet (15m-61m) long. Others are much shorter and simply piles of long-aged field stones that functioned as check dams in swales. Amorphous piles of stones are interspersed among the walls. The area containing cairns, which are stacked columns of fieldstones, is about 800 feet (244 m) north of the terraces. There are no signs of terraces among the cairns

Sandy Creek Park does not have signage concerning the ancient stone works. The publications of the Athens-Clarke County Historical Society do not mention the apparent ruins. Jones even browsed through archeological literature, but found no mention of the site. Employees of the Athens-Clarke County Recreation Department had little information on the stone ruins. Most were not aware that they even existed.

Mack Jones is currently preparing an Archaeological Site Nomination Form to submit to the Georgia Division of Historic Preservation. This is the first step toward bringing professional archaeologists to the site. It is always possible that publicity about Sandy Creek Park will attract archaeology professors and students from the nearby University of Georgia.

If the Sandy Creek Park Terrace Complex turns out to be Native American in origin, it, along with the better documented Track Rock Gap Terrace Complex, will mandate major changes to the history and anthropology books about eastern North America. If it is “merely” the ruins or 19th century industry or an agricultural experiment by European settlers, the site still deserves recognition and protection. It is unique in the Southern Piedmont.

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Sandy Creek terrace complex submitted by dodomad : Plan of the site Image copyright: Richard L. Thornton, Architect (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Sandy Creek terrace complex by Anonymous on Friday, 07 March 2014
Turkmenistan is not in Georgia (USA) last time I checked.???
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