Could it indicate a piggery where swine were fed garbage from the nearby
town?

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 1:11 PM, geoff carver <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> "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).
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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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