Michael Wylde on the Mound 5 Dig at Pineland

At the April 21 SWFAS meeting in Bonita Springs, Michael Wylde of Randell Research Center will talk about the excavation in Mound 5 of the Pineland site. The meeting begins at 7:30; coffee and snacks are available at 7.

As usual, the talk is free, open to the public and held at the Bonita Springs Community Hall, 27381 Old US-41 in Bonita Springs.

In late December 2009, the Randell Research Center was offered an opportunity to examine Mound 5 of the Brown’s Mound Complex on property adjacent to RRC. Brown’s Mound 1, the largest mound on the Pineland site, is thought to have been surrounded by five other mounds, forming a six mound “complex.” Mound 5 is indicated on a map drawn by Frank Hamilton Cushing in 1895, before twentieth-century land modifications began.