Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex

Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex is an archaeological site in British Columbia, Canada. Access is restricted and requires permission. Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex is situated nearby to the locality Fountain.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fountain and Fountain Valley.

Fountain

Locality

Fountain is an unincorporated rural area and Indian reserve community in the Fraser Canyon region of British Columbia, Canada, located at the ten-mile mark from the town of Lillooet on BC Highway 99, which in that area is also on the route of the Old Cariboo Road and is located at the junction of that route with the old gold rush-era trail via Fountain Valley and the Fountain Lakes. Fountain is situated 6 km southeast of Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex.

Fountain Valley

Hamlet

Photo: The Interior, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fountain Valley, officially named Three Lake Valley and also known as the Fountain Lakes Valley, is a valley and rural community located on the east flank of Fountain Ridge, east of the town of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada and immediately south of the Indian reserve community of Fountain. Fountain Valley is situated 8 km southeast of Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex.

Lillooet

Photo: LongitudeLatitude, CC BY 2.0.

Lillooet is the main town in the Fraser Canyon and Bridge River Country region of British Columbia. It was the first native town in the British Columbia Interior, and was briefly the largest town of the Fraser River Gold Rush in 1858-1860.

Xwisten Bridge River Pithouse Complex

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Archaeological site
Category: historic site
Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

50.77343° or 50° 46′ 24″ north

Longitude

-121.9657° or 121° 57′ 57″ west

Open location code

942WQ2FM+9P

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1347440158

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

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