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Heritage at Risk : South Carolina Archaeology Month, October 2019 : Spanish Mount
Smith, Karen Gaillard, Meg South Carolina Department of Natural Resources University of South Carolina. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Smith, Karen
Gaillard, Meg
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
University of South Carolina. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology
South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Abstract
This poster is one of four posters within the 2019 South Carolina Archaeology Month Heritage at Risk poster series. Spanish Mount (38CH62) is a 4,000-year-old shell mound located in Edisto Beach State Park. In the early 19th century, the mound was described as 4.5 - 6 meters high. By the 1970s, the shell mound had lost 1 - 3 meters in height, in part, due to coastal development that began in the 1920s, eventually altering the hydrology of the neighboring tidal creek. A retaining wall that was installed at Spanish Mount in the mid-2000s to prevent erosion was severely damaged during the historic South Carolina floods of 2015 and drove home the fact that this 4,000-year-old site will be destroyed in our lifetime. Archaeological recovery at Spanish Mount took place for the last time in 2017. More information about Heritage at Risk efforts can be found at http://heritagetrust.dnr.sc.gov/.
Issue Date
2019-08-13
Keywords
South Carolina Archaeology Month--Posters, Historic preservation--South Carolina--Edisto Island--Posters, Spanish Mount (Edisto Island, S.C.), Flood damage prevention--South Carolina--Edisto Island--Posters, Archaeology--South Carolina--Edisto Island--Posters, Shell mounds--South Carolind--Edisto Island--Posters
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