<< Our Photo Pages >> Grave Creek Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Mid Atlantic
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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Grave Creek MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 71.321 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Mid Atlantic Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Moundsville
Latitude: 39.916920N Longitude: 80.744722W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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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eforrest25 visited on 21st Aug 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 The mound is impressive by any standards and a good introduction to the ancient sites further west and south.
Grave Creek Mound is the largest conical burial mound in the United States. It is 62 feet high and 240 feet in diameter at the base. The mound was built and enlarged with successive burials between 250 and 150 BC. Both the mound itself and finds within it are associated with the Adena culture.
Amateur excavations caused considerable damage the archaeological record in the 1830's. Originally the mound was the largest component of a group of structures that seems to have included stone towers [cairns] on surrounding hills. The other sites are almost entirely absent, destroyed or buried under the modern town.
The associated museum onsite describes the finds from study and excavation of the mound and provides information about the now lost original structures. The mound is somewhat infamous for the now lost Grave Creek stone tablet, inscribed with symbols.
Web sites describing the site and the associated museum are West Virginia Culture and the Marshall County tourism website.
For a dispassionate statement about the “tablet” see McCulloch's Archaeological Outliers website.
Note: Archaeology Lab for children at the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex from 2-4 p.m. March 22, see latest comment
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