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A windmill which once provided water for excavation teams working in digs on the site
The Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a National Monument, consisting of a valley of the Niobrara River in Nebraska, United States, located close to the town of Harrison.
The area largely consists of grassy plains, which are covered in wild grasses including prairie sandreed, blue grama, little bluestem and needle-and-thread, and the wildflowers lupine, spiderwort, western wallflower and sunflowers.
The National Monument is best known, however, for the large number of well-preserved fossils which have been discovered, particularly at dig sites on Carnegie and University Hills. Fossils from the site are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals, such as Menoceras and Miohippus
The site is maintained by the National Park Service.
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