Auld Mound

Auld Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Area	2 acres (0.81 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 #	70000583^[1]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1970

Auld Mound (38CH41), also known as Yough Hall Plantation Shell Ring, is a historic mound located near Mount Pleasant, Charleston County, 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 174 feet in diameter and stands 2 to 3 feet high. The midden is largely composed of oyster shell.^[2]^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ E. Thomas Hemings (April 1970). "Auld Mound" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. Retrieved June 2014.
↑ "Auld Mound, Charleston County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

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