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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Rock Eagle cairnCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.086 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Atlanta, GA Nearest Village: Eatonton, GA
Latitude: 33.417000N Longitude: 83.389W
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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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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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Eagle effigy cairn in Georgia, USA
It is not known when this eagle- or vulture-shaped mound of whitish quartz was built. Estimates range from 1000 up to 3000 years ago. I have little more information and encourage anyone with more information to add comments.
Link with some info here.
More information from Michelledubois:
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound is an archaeological site in Putnam County, Georgia, U.S.A. estimated to have been constructed 1,000 to 3,000 years ago. The earthwork was built up of thousands of pieces of quartzite laid in the mounded shape of a large bird. Although it is most often referred to as an eagle, scholars do not know exactly what type of bird the original builders intended to portray. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) because of its significance.
What prompted the early inhabitants of Middle Georgia, who lived in a time long before the rise of the later Mississippian, Creek and Cherokee cultures, to build these massive effigy mounds is still something of a mystery. They obviously hold ceremonial significance and the Rock Eagle seems to have been expanded from a large dome-shaped central mound.
Although dating of the mound remains tentative (with some suggesting a much older date), most scientists now concur that it was probably built shortly after the time of Christ. This was an era with earthen effigy mounds were build in the Midwest in large numbers. It should be noted, however, that the earthworks at the much older Poverty Point site in Louisiana also appear to form the shape of a gigantic bird. That site is thought to date back 3,000 years.
At the Rock Eagle Effigy Mound, rocks piled to a height of 10 feet form an effigy of a soaring bird 102 feet long from head to tail and 120 feet wide from wing tip to wing tip. The quartz rock effigy mound probably served as a ceremonial center for Indians in the surrounding area. A tower overlook is adjacent to the effigy, located 9 miles north of Eatonton on U.S. 441/129.
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