Indian Mound exposed...along coast.

[Trez]

Went detecting a few weeks back and came upon a site/sight that we don't get to see that often along the coast here...except after storms. For all you northerners here is what a coastal Indian mound/trash pit looks like.
I always look for the easily seen hints in the picture...whenever they clear lots in my area I am always looking for shell, oysters etc...

This mound pictured has been known about for long time, properties on photo will tell you the local. Border of the AIS and Jeaga Indians.

I leave these alone, I do not dig within them or disturb them in anyway.
I have when man is destroying them with his loader or dozer...they have no clue sometimes.

Trez

 

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[GatorBoy]

Hey.. its my backyard...almost. that poor mound gets ripped into with every really big storm now that the ocean level is where it is.

 

[Bum Luck]

Looks like they ate the same things I like!

 

[larson1951]

Went detecting a few weeks back and came upon a site/sight that we don't get to see that often along the coast here...except after storms. For all you northerners here is what a coastal Indian mound/trash pit looks like.
I always look for the easily seen hints in the picture...whenever they clear lots in my area I am always looking for shell, oysters etc...

This mound pictured has been known about for long time, properties on photo will tell you the local. Border of the AIS and Jeaga Indians.

I leave these alone, I do not dig within them or disturb them in anyway.
I have when man is destroying them with his loader or dozer...they have no clue sometimes.

Trez

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this reminds me in a way of one edge of the site we hunt where there is a drop of to an old creek channel (not a midden) but looks similar
it is where things are slowly eroding and after a hard long rain it exposes a bit more ash and stuff

 

[SOHIO]

ool...thanks for showing that

 

[Tnmountains]

Looks like that house above is getting close to the edge as well. Thanks for sharing.

 

[BosnMate]

Out here on the west coast many times the mounds can be spotted by the black soil, which is carbon from hundreds, more likely thousands of fires over hundreds of years, and at least the one I was most familiar with was loaded with shell, bone, burials, and artifacts. I'll have more on this with a thread later, showing some of the stuff I found, but sadly I can't show the mound, the dozers got it.

 

[GatorBoy]

Alot of the Florida ones were used as road bed material. Nice huh?

 

[IlliniGuy]

Those are some very nice pics of what a shell midden looks like. Thank you for sharing those

 

[GatorBoy]

I don't really want to speak for Trez but since he's not responding and I live right by that small midden deposit I just want to point out that it is comparatively very small as opposed to others in the area.

 

[rock]

Alot of the Florida ones were used as road bed material. Nice huh?

They do the same thing here in Ga. I am thinking about trying to get a job with them so I can help remove all that dirt .

 

[Salura]

I've been finding a lot of sea shells scattered throughout my yard, between 4-6 inches down. At first I thought to myself that the previous owners either decorated with shells or it was trash. It may be that I have a midden nearby. I'll keep my eyes open for signs of it.

I also have a bunch of rocks with shells in them (not coquina). I can only guess that they were either brought in or dug up. I have no way of knowing which right now. I'm finding shells in the limestone of my driveway as the driveway wears down from use and rain. I live in the "interior" of Florida, so it is way cool to find stuff from when this part of Florida was underwater.

I've also been shown a location to go shark tooth hunting in the creeks of Gainesville. Very cool

 

[GatorBoy]

Lots of fossil hunting to do in Gainesville.
There's a lot of shark teeth in the creeks ..also loads of fossils in the Santa Fe and Suwannee Rivers.