"Sau" is "sow," a female pig.
"Berg" is hill or mountain.
So it could refer to a dump, as in a place where pigs root around.
There is a list of places by that name here:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauberg
There is also a range of hills in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) called the
"Sauberge" (plural). "The wild boar population is relatively large."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauberge
Interesting one is called "Ziegenberg" (Goat hill), and one is "Ebersberg"
(Boar [male pig] hill).

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I'd appreciate any input on the meaning of the term "Der Sauberg,", as noted
on a 1766 map of the Moravian settlement of Bethabara in North Carolina.

Past translations I've seen interpret this as "town dump" or "filth or
manure pile," but does anyone have a better translation?  Anyone out there
ever explored a "Sauberg" archaeologically? 

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