Address Restricted, Hilton Head, South Carolina. County/parish: Beaufort.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 10, 1970. NRIS 70000564.
2 contributing sites.Also known as:
Skull Creek is a historic archeological site located at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
The site includes two of 20 or more prehistoric Native American shell middens in a ring shape located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. It probably dates from early in the second millennium BC, and is likely to contain some of the earliest pottery known in North America. The Skull Creek rings are the only known example of a later ring superimposed over an earlier one.
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