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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Forest Hill Cemetery Alternative Name: Forest Hill Effigy Mounds
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Madison, WI
Latitude: 43.063570N  Longitude: 89.43213W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery submitted by AKFisher : Effigy mounds in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin. These were made sometime between 500 BC -- AD 700. From: foresthill.williamcronon.net/effigy-mounds/ (Vote or comment on this photo)
The cemetery protects seven pre-European contact effigy mounds, dating from 700 to 1200 CE. The earthworks are shaped like a goose flying down a slope toward Lake Wingra, two panthers, and a linear shape. Three more linear mounds have been destroyed by cemetery development and the goose's head was destroyed by grading for the railroad.

The mound group is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 . Source: Wikipedia.

References:
1. Birmingham, Robert A. (2010). "Spirits of Earth: The Effigy Mound Landscape of Madison and the Four Lakes". Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 209–210. ISBN 978-0-299-23264-1.
2. "Forest Hill Cemetery Native American Mound Group". Play Madison Parks: Historical Features. City of Madison. Retrieved January 9, 2016.

Further reading and information:
Wikipedia ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill_Cemetery_(Madison%2C_Wisconsin) .
City of Madison ~ http://www.cityofmadison.com/parks/find-a-park/cemetery/

Directions: From downtown Madison, via Regent St., 2.2 mi.
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Forest Hill Cemetery
Forest Hill Cemetery submitted by AKFisher : A map diagram of Indian effigy mounds seven miles east of Blue Mounds in the Wisconsin Territory produced in 1838. Wisconsin Historical Society Image 5173. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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