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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound Alternative Name: shellmound SCR-7
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 30.796 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The West Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Santa Cruz  Nearest Village: Davenport
Latitude: 36.981350N  Longitude: 122.153917W
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
 5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 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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Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound above the tracks in the sand. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound is an artificial mound in Santa Cruz County, California. Shellmound SCR-7 sits over the mouth of Laguna Creek from edge of Sand Hill Bluff it is an approximately 160 by 360 ft oval shaped mound rising about ten feet above the plain of Sand Hill Bluff.

The northern end of the oval overlooks the edge of the rocky coastal bluff and the southern end is outlined by agricultural fields. There is a rock face climbing up from the beach at Laguna Creek, like an ancient stairway toward the center of the mound.

Saved from Urban sprawl, Railroad, and Highway developement, this Ohlone shellmound SCR-7 is one of the most well preserved mound sites left in California. Other than the agricultural disturbance to the site around the mound, the only damage to SCR-7 is visible by the linear change vegitation over top a former excavation trench which dissects the center of the mound from the southside.

Archeology dates SCR-7 at 5,400 to 6,100 years ago (Jones & Hildebrandt1990). The remains of a flightless scoter bird(Chendytes lawi) were found at SCR-7, previously believed to have gone extinct 33,000 years ago based on archeological finds on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California.

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Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : Shellmound SCR-7 from the edge of the field on it's perimeter. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking across the broad side of the mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : shell fragments on SCR-7 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking south down the center of the mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking north along the mound over the Laguna Creek beach. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : laguna creek with shellmound SCR-7 on the bluff just above the path in the sand.

Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound
Sand Hill Bluff Shellmound submitted by symbionspacesuit : Shellmound SCR-7 with shell fragments seen here upon the mound

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