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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Weedon Island Preserve Alternative Name: McKeithen culture, Weeden Island PreserveCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 11.874 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: St. Petersburg, FL
Latitude: 27.847600N Longitude: 82.6071W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
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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Mound Burial Complex and Ancient Settlement in Pinellas County, Florida.
The Weedon Island Perserve is the type site for the Weedon Island Culture, a Woodland era (200-700AD) culture exemplified by incised and point decorate ceramics. The culture is thought to have been influenced by Hopewell cultural influences of mound burials with funerary offerings.
Weedon Island is the site of several burial mound complexes. Some of these were excavated in the 1920's by J Walter Fewkes. Sites in Florida and Georgia exhibit the traits first seen in the finds of Weedon Island, which is now thought to have been a relative backwater of the cilture.
Today the island is the site of a nature and cultural preserve. In addition to extensive foot and kayak trails throughout the preserve, there is a museum highlighting both the natural and archaeological importance of Weedon Island. Several trails are wheelchair accessible. The mound complexes are a National Historic Landmark.
The preserve website is found here.
Note: 1100 year old canoe. Oldest ocean-going water craft yet found in Florida.
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