Green's Shell Enclosure

Green's Shell Enclosure
Nearest cityHilton Head Island, South Carolina
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
MPSHistoric Resources of the Late Archaic-Early Woodland Period Shell Rings of South Carolina, ca. 1,000-2,200 years B.C.
NRHP reference No.74001825[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 7, 1974

Green's Shell Enclosure is a historic archeological site located at Hilton Head Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The site includes one of 20 or more prehistoric Indian shell middens in a ring shape located from the central coast of South Carolina to the central coast of Georgia. They are believed to date early in the second millennium BC, and they contain some of the earliest pottery known in North America.[2][3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Green's Shell Enclosure, Beaufort County (Address Restricted)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
  3. ^ M.G. Rhett (April 1974). "Green's Shell Enclosure" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places nomination. NRHP. Retrieved March 1, 2014.