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Multi-periodSite Name: Toltec Mounds - EmbankmentCountry: United States
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Region: The South Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Little Rock Nearest Village: Scott
Latitude: 34.645083N Longitude: 92.062028W
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2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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An outer ditch and inner embankment made of ditch spoil and capped with a protective layer of clay. It surrounded the Toltec Mound site on three sides and portions of it may have been dug to enlarge a filled-in meander channel that already existed when the site was occupied.
In the 1880's the embankment was still 8 - 10 feet high, but has been plowed down in the years since. The embankment is only a visible feature in a few spots around the site today, although excavations indicate that evidence verifying the historic record. One section is found to the visitor's near left on entering the site from the visitor's center - and another much larger section, around 6 feet high with a ditch that holds water during part of the year, lies in the wooded portion on the south side of the sight.
As the embankment is low and no evidence of a fence has been found. There is an assumption that this was a ceremonial boundary. The location given is for the smaller section.
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