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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Key Largo Rock Mound Alternative Name: Key Largo Temple Mound, 8MO27
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 306.379 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Homestead, FL  Nearest Village: Key Largo, FL
Latitude: 25.130000N  Longitude: 80.41W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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.
no data 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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Ancient Temple in Monroe County, Florida.
Unique mound or platform made largely from limestone rocks. Described by Goggin in 1940, as made from limestone rocks 10 - 12 inches in diameter and laid in courses, amounting to 8 - 9 feet high. The mound is oval or "kidney shaped" and 55 feet across by 100 feet long. A 25 foot long stone ramp or "causeway" led from the east side of the mound.

Goggin also described a low stone wall and possible housing sites. He identified the whole area as a ceremonial site.

Very unfortunately a survey in 1977 showed that portions of the mound including the ramp had been completely removed for building materials.

Although listed on the National Register of Historic Places (in 1975, #75000562) the Key Largo Rock Mound is on private property, is overgrown with vegetation, and is not accessible.

National Register of Historic Places Listing:
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Caloosa
Period of Significance: 1000-1499 BC

Other sources:
Goggin, John M. "Archaeological Investigations on the Upper Florida Keys". 1944.
Driscoll, Kelly A. "An archaeological study of architectural form and function at Indiana Key, Florida". 2003. Graduate School Thesis. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1358
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Key Largo’s Rock Mound by davidmorgan on Tuesday, 22 January 2013
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Key Largo’s rock mound, discovered c. 1932, is part of the remains of an Indian village populated at least a thousand years ago. By 1200, archaeologist Irving Eyster believes, the site was abandoned. He bases this date on the style of pottery recovered.
This site in now partially occupied by the Caloosa Campground , bayside of U.S. One.
By the 1940s residents had severely damaged the site by hauling away rocks and dirt from the rock mound. Therefore, there is no chance of knowing what the village looked like, but this is what can be found from research of four reports of the village site dating from 1944 to 1996.
There are three important elements that can still be found. One. A habitation mound, mostly destroyed by activities at the campground, where there have been found hundreds of pieces of pottery by the campground owner, George Eager, and others. Two. A fresh water sinkhole nearby, which no archaeologist has investigated, and three. The rock mound itself. It was very likely a ceremonial center with an attached building (that building’s foundation, 25’ x 14’ x 1’ high was termed a causeway by one archaeologist). Speculations that the mound has Mayan connections or is an effigy mound seem to be just that. But that it was an important site was evident to Eyster, who termed it “a great complex”.
According to the most recent report, by archaeologists Christine L. Newman and Louis D. Tesar (1996), a test excavation revealed at least two separate construction/occupation sequences of the mound, which is 100’ x 55’ x 8’ high. “The Key Largo Rock Mound is unique,” said the archaeologists, “Perhaps the only example left of this type of site in Florida”. And one wonders, what were the ceremonies performed millenniums ago, by a people now extinct, at their village at Key Largo.

Sources: Reports by John M. Goggin, Eyster, Carlos Martinez, and Newman and Tesar, with maps of the site, can be found in the history collection of the Islamorada library.

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