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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: ScotrunCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 69.15 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Scot Run
Latitude: 41.052000N Longitude: 75.315W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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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Once a fine example of a wall-and-cairn site, this site is now said to be mostly destroyed. It was considered by those who knew it to be one of the most significant sites in Pennsylvania, because of the variety of features to be found in close proximity to one another: parallel walls across the hill with other parallel walls running up the hill, carefully-shaped rockpiles formed on boulders in different ways, groups of stones said to form animal effigies, a chamber set into a wall, and a rare standing stone.
When Great Wolf Lodge built on the site, they destroyed nearly all of it after promising to preserve it. Ironically, they use totem poles--symbols of people indigenous to the northwestern United States--as part of their image.
This was one of the sites visited by the joint group of indigenous descendants, amateur stonework investigators, and archaeologists during the Delaware Water Gap Conference of several years ago.
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