The Margate Blount Archaeological Site was known as early as 1940, and in 1959 Bruce Blount observed what appeared to be a wooden crypt filled with skeletal remains after a bulldozer struck the mound and scattered bones. Because the remains were determined to be very old, archaeologists surveyed the site and found multiple artifacts. From 1959 to 1961, the Broward County Archaeological Society conducted excavations led by Wilma Williams, who named the site, and in 1986 Gypsy Graves led additional studies. After Coral Ridge Properties purchased the site in 1989 for development, Professor Wilburn “Sonny” Cockrell assessed it in 1990 and 2000, tentatively dating it from 500 BCE to 500 CE while also suggesting a wider range from 1500 BCE to 800 CE, and calling it regionally significant and likely eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. A 2002 survey by Robert S. Carr led to its protection and to its 2006 designation as a conservation site through a partnership of the City of Parkland, Broward County, and the State of Florida. The site provides important information about the lifeways and mortuary practices of the Tequesta, a Native American tribe that occupied Florida’s southeastern Atlantic coast, and includes both a habitation area and burial mound. Excavations uncovered more than 4,000 pottery shards, 108 shell tools, 113 bone artifacts, skeletal remains with wooden burial implements, midden materials revealing food sources, drilled shark vertebrae and teeth, bone points and knives, beads, a drilled alligator tooth, a drilled human tooth, rock pendants including three made from nonlocal stone that suggest trade and travel, a rare turtle effigy pendant, and other wooden artifacts. The pottery supports a dating range from 500 BCE to 750 CE, though some pieces reflect a more recent historic component dating to the late 17th or early 18th century.