Conant's Hill Site

Conant's Hill Site
View of Horseshoe Pond from the dam
Location End of Station St., 1/2 mile south of Main St., Wareham, Massachusetts
Area 23 acres (9.3 ha)
NRHP reference # 09000091[1]
Added to NRHP November 25, 1983

Conant's Hill Site is an archaeological site in Wareham, Massachusetts. The area, located around Horseshoe Pond just north of Interstate 195, is a multicomponent site that includes both industrial remains dating to the 18th century,[2] and Native American artifacts. During excavations in 1947, remains of four Native Americans were exhumed, along with a lead ring, evidence that they were post-contact burials.[3] The site also includes a midden, with prehistoric artifacts dating as far back as the Late Archaic.[4]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Conant's Hill Preserve". Wildlands Trust. Archived from the original on 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  3. ↑ "Notice of Inventory Completion: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA". National Park Service. Archived from the original on October 13, 2006. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Conference on New England Archaeology Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2" (PDF). Conference on New England Archaeology. June 1983. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 16, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-16.


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