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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bodega Harbor Shellmound - Artificial Mound in United States in The West

Submitted by symbionspacesuit on Thursday, 29 April 2010  Page Views: 5403

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Bodega Harbor Shellmound Alternative Name: Shellmound SON-320
Country: United States Region: The West Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Bodega Bay  Nearest Village: Bodega
Latitude: 38.318751N  Longitude: 123.055933W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
5 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
4

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Bodega Harbor Shellmound
Bodega Harbor Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : shell fragments beneath the dune (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in The West. Bodega Harbor Shellmound (SON-320) is in the northwest corner of Miwok country. Lying on the western shore of Bodega Harbor with only it's eastern slope exposed beneath 4 or 5 feet of grassy dune which covers most of the peninsula. Made visible when the original ranch road was cut into dune and mound.

The estimated height of the shellmound is 4 to 8 feet, but the true size of the mound lay hidden beneath the dunes. Two burials have been found at sit SON-320 one skeleton found on a bed of redwood in a east west direction(with head to the west), as well as many obsidian and shell tools, beads, and several charmstones.
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Bodega Harbor Shellmound
Bodega Harbor Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking southwest across the shellmound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bodega Harbor Shellmound
Bodega Harbor Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking across the flood plain to the dunes and along the road which cuts into the mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bodega Harbor Shellmound
Bodega Harbor Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking northwest across the shellmound (Vote or comment on this photo)

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