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LAMANAI
P9-25
Ancient Dock
2
N9-56
The Mask Temple
N10-43
The High Temple
Ball Court
New River
Lagoon
N10-27
(Stela 9)
Royal/Elite
Residences
N
N10-9
The Jaguar Temple
Museum
Landing Docks
0
metres
200
0
yards
200
Old Sugar Mill (272 yds), Lamanai Outpost Lodge (1 mile) & Indian Church Village (1.5 miles)
The archeological museum
Same hours as site • Entry included in site fee
he
archeological museum
at the site houses an excellent collection of artefacts,
arranged in chronological order; the majority of these are figurines depicting gods and
animals, particularly crocodiles. The most beautiful exhibits are the delicate eccentric
flints - star- and sceptre-shaped symbols - skilfully chipped from a single piece of
stone. Traces of later settlers can also be seen near the museum: immediately to the
south are the ruins of two churches built by Spanish missionaries, while a short trail
behind the building leads west to the remains of a nineteenth-century sugar mill, built
by Confederate refugees from the American Civil War. These refugees settled in several
places in Belize, in an attempt to recreate the antebellum South using indentured
