Sewee Mound
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Sewee Mound | |
 Sewee Shell Ring, September 2011 | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Location | Salt Pond Road (FS Road 243), Awendaw, South Carolina |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| MPS | Historic Resources of the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Period Shell Rings of South Carolina, ca. 1,000-2,200 years B.C |
| NRHP reference No. | 70000571[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1970 |
Sewee Mound (38CH45), also known as the Old Fort, is a historic mound located near Awendaw, South Carolina. It is one of 20 or more prehistoric shell rings located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. On average, it measures 149 feet in diameter and stands 10 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell. A smaller midden is located nearby.[2][3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.[1][4][5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sewee Shell Ring.
| Topics |   | |
|---|---|---|
| Lists by county |
| |
| Lists by city | ||
| Other lists | ||
 | This article about a property in Charleston County, South Carolina on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |