An extraordinary artifact was found in a plowed field in a late Mississippian site (the King Site) in NW Georgia. It proved to be a Spanish sword from the mid-1500’s. Local men were walking a plowed field when they noticed a piece of iron protruding from the sandy loam. Digging into the immediate area, they found a Native…
1Ce308 is a very important Native / Spanish contact site in Cherokee County in northeast Alabama. Although the site is multicomponent, the European contact portion of the site is the most intriguing. The site, located in a plowed field, was dug by collectors. Caleb Curren, Keith Little, and George Lankford contacted the collectors and made photographs of a…
The following pages contain photographs of a sample of 16th Century Spanish artifacts from Alabama and NW Florida.It is a collection of objects from museums, private collections, and personal excavations.
During the latter half of the 20th century an important late Mississippian /Protohistoric site (circa mid-1500s through 1600s) was discovered in east-central Mississippi.