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<< Other Photo Pages >> Perch Lake mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in New England

Submitted by Andy B on Sunday, 30 July 2023  Page Views: 381

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Perch Lake mounds Alternative Name: Hyde Creek
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 90.713 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: New England Type: Artificial Mound

Latitude: 44.123820N  Longitude: 75.89267W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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3 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
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Perch Lake mounds
Perch Lake mounds submitted by Dodomad : Perch Lake in Jefferson County, NY currently has 70 mounds and is the largest mound group in the state. They are very unusual "annular" mounds and were first identified in 1850. They remain unexplained. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in New England

A large, unusual group of non-mortuary mounds at Perch Lake, east of Lake Ontario in northern New York State. The Perch Lake mounds are annular features that have long been objects of interest, but their purpose has remained enigmatic. An early estimate placed their number at 200, and upwards of 40 of them still remain in a well-preserved state.

Typically the mounds are circular, symmetrical rings 10 m in diameter and 0.6 m high, with central depressions 2.5 m across. A recent pilot study of a mound built ca. 2,000 years ago showed that the ring portion is made of earth and stone and that the central depression contains much wood charcoal and fire-altered rock.

Over the years many of the mounds have been partially opened, but no human remains have ever been found. Very few artifacts have been reported and no food refuse. Indeed it is the lack of such materials that has made past attempts at interpretation open to question and relegated the mounds to obscurity.

At least 13 hypotheses regarding how the mounds were used have been proposed; these range widely from mounds serving primarily ritual functions, to lodges with perishable superstructures, to food processing facilities. Few of the hypotheses can be rejected conclusively on the basis of available information, and new field-based investigations are needed to address deficiencies in the current knowledge about the mounds.

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Perch Lake mounds
Perch Lake mounds submitted by Dodomad : Perch Lake in Jefferson County, NY currently has 70 mounds and is the largest mound group in the state. They are very unusual "annular" mounds and were first identified in 1850. They remain unexplained. Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Perch Lake mounds
Perch Lake mounds submitted by Dodomad : A mound at Perch Lake in Jefferson County, northern New York, based on a 1901 field sketch by W. M. Beauchamp Source: 1905, “Perch Lake Mounds” NYSM Bulletin 87, www.nysl.nysed.gov (Vote or comment on this photo)

Perch Lake mounds
Perch Lake mounds submitted by Dodomad : Mapping one of the mounds in the Hyde Creek subgroup. Inset, a 3D surface model used to visualize the form and to generate descriptive statistics for comparative purposes. Photo Credit: Dr. Julieann Van Nest (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Perch Lake mounds by Andy B on Sunday, 30 July 2023
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Perch lake mounds, with notes on other New York mounds, and some accounts of Indian trailsby Beauchamp, William Martin,
Publication date 1905
https://archive.org/details/perchlakemoundsw00beauiala/page/16/mode/2up
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Re: Perch Lake mounds by Andy B on Sunday, 30 July 2023
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Dr. Julieann Van Nest Writes: Annular Mounds at Perch Lake
First recorded in the mid-1850s, the unusual mounds at Perch Lake in Jefferson County, New York have long eluded satisfactory archaeological explanation. With funding from the National Science Foundation, we have been exploring some of the geoarchaeological and archaeobotanical aspects of these fascinating features.

The mounds at Perch Lake are annular or ring-shaped features made of earth and stones. Recent walkover survey in the 4 x 10 km area surrounding the Perch Lake basin documents 70 mounds, making this by far the largest mound group in New York. The mounds are small and subtle, but consistently complete circles (or slight ovals). Detailed topographic surveys show that they rarely exceed a meter in height. Outer diameters average about 11 m, and the ring crests defining a central depression have an average diameter of about 5 m. There are no ditches or borrow pits associated with these mounds, and there are no other mound forms in the Perch Lake area.
More at: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/archaeology/geoarchaeology/research/annular-mounds-perch-lake
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