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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Spanish HillCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 58.561 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: South Waverly, PA
Latitude: 41.994659N Longitude: 76.550505W
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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Spanish Hill is a hill located in the borough of South Waverly, Pennsylvania. Opinions regarding the origin of structures found on the site vary from embankments created by early farmers, to the remnants of a Native American village and battlements, due to the site's similarity to the description found in the account of Étienne Brûlé of a settlement called Carantouan.
The area in the hill's vicinity was previously occupied by Susquehannock Native Americans. It was a common site for both amateur and professional archaeology, as well as relic hunting. The source of the name remains unknown, but various theories have been proposed as to its origin.
Early scholars believed that the monument was created by receding glaciers;[2] Spanish Hill comprises approximately 10 acres (40,000 m2) of earth in a site that is included within the Sayre quadrangle documented by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).[7][8] Located at an elevation of 978 feet (298 m) above sea level,[8] it rises approximately 230 feet (70 m) over the nearby floodplain of the Chemung River.[7] The hill is located in South Waverly, Pennsylvania, in Bradford County,[7] just south of the state border with New York. This territory was occupied by the Susquehannock people for centuries before European contact.
History:
The remnant of the hill depicted in the late 19th century etching show has a striking resemblance to major earthwork platform mounds of the Mississippian culture and preceding cultures. The most recent of these were built and occupied from the 9th to the 15th centuries CE, and earlier mounds have also been found. These mounds typically were built as the center of villages along the lowland of rivers throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, and their tributaries. Many such mounds have been found at the site of former Cherokee villages in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee narrow river valleys in the Appalachian foothills. The mounds were built as earthworks.
The hill has been acknowledged and studied by historians and archaeologists for more than two hundred years.[7] The source of the name is unknown, but individuals traveling through the area between 1795 and 1804 described "Spanish Ramparts" as a feature of the hill.[2] Some of the earliest settlers to the region reported that local Native Americans referred to the hill either as "Hispan" or "Espan."[9]
References:
1. Twigg 2005, p. 27.
2. Murray 1921, p. 289.
3. Murray 1908, p. 58.
4. Murray 1908, p. 59.
5. Parkman 1897, p. 235.
6. Lenik 2009, p. 114.
7. Lenik 2009, p. 113.
8. Spanish Hill (Pennsylvania)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
9. Murray 1908, pp. 61–62.
Bibliography:
Blue, Rose J.; Naden, Corinne J. (2004). Exploring the St. Lawrence River Region. Chicago, Illinois: Raintree. p. 32. ISBN 141090337-0.
Donehoo, George P. (1918). "Report of the Work of the Susquehanna Archaeological Expedition". Second Report of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: New Era Printing Company.
Lenik, Edward J. (2009). Making Pictures in Stone: American Indian Rock Art of North America. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-1629-7.
Minderhout, David J. (2013). Native Americans in the Susquehanna River Valley, Past and Present. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61148-487-8.
Murray, Louise Welles (1908). A History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens, Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: The Raeder Press.
Murray, Louise Welles (July–September 1921). "Aboriginal Sites in and Near "Teaoga," Now Athens, Pennsylvania". American Anthropologist. American Anthropological Association. 23 (3): 183–214. doi:10.1525/aa.1921.23.2.02a00070. JSTOR i227229.(subscription required)
Parkman, Francis (1897). Pioneers of France in the New World: France and England in North America. Vol. Part First, Volume II. Little Brown and Company, Boston. p. 235.
Twigg, Deborah (Fall 2005). "Revisiting the Mystery of "Carantouan" and Spanish Hill". Pennsylvania Archaeologist. Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. 75 (2).
Further reading and information:
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Hill/
Spanish Hill:
http://www.spanishhill.com/
Directions:
Located on Roman Way in South Waverly, PA
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