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The Basil
Jones Maya Site
Bercellon
 The Maya and Bercellon
The Bercellon Site
Map to the Bercellon Site
The Maya Site
at Basil Jones, known as Bercellon is
relatively unknown and unexplored. Surrounded
by jungle and completely over grown, Bercellon
is one of the last potentially major Maya sites
on Ambergris Caye, yet to be
explored.
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The Bercellon Maya Site
One of the things
that attracted me to Belize was the Maya
Civilization and their many temples. Then
after becoming a future resident of the
Basil Jones area of Ambergris Caye, I
became quite interested in the Maya Site
at Bercellon, not too far away. There was
very little known about it, so when I
visited the island in August, 2001, I was
determined to find out more and explore
it. This is a narrative of my expedition
(trip) to the Bercellon Maya Site.
After asking around San Pedro, I
eventually was put in touch with
Secundino "Dino" Gonzalez Jr.
and his friend Samuel "Sam"
Gonzalez. Dino had been to Bercellon, a
couple of times, but Sam was a hunter and
often hunted for deer and wild pigs on
North Ambergris Caye, especially the
Basil Jones area, and Sam knew just where
the Bercellon ruins were.
Arrangements were made and with an over
cast sky I found myself boating up to
North Ambergris Caye, with Dino, Sam, and
a friend of Dino's, ten year old
Guillermo "Guininni" Burgos.
Dino had warned me to be prepared for
mosquitoes, so I wore a long sleeve shirt
and long pants and brought two types of
repellent. I also brought two cameras,
some plastic ziplock bags, just in case
of rain, and a one hundred foot tape
measure. The trip north took about fifty
minutes until we docked at the newer Nova
Shrimp concrete pier, by the road to the
Basil Jones airstrip. From there we
headed west down the one and one quarter
mile sand and crushed coral road.
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