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<< Other Photo Pages >> Whitehead Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by AKFisher on Friday, 28 July 2023  Page Views: 137

Multi-periodSite Name: Whitehead Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 24.62 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Whitewater Village, IN
Latitude: 39.944820N  Longitude: 84.83102W
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.
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
4

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Whitehead Mound
Whitehead Mound submitted by AKFisher : Photo credit Gregory L. Little, Ed.D. The Whitehead Mound in Indiana during its 1928 excavation. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

Frank Setzler surveyed and excavated the Whitehead Mound and several other mounds in the Whitewater River Valley in the late 1920s. Quotations are from his report: "The mound was located in Whitewater Township, Franklin County a few miles west of the Ohio border. It was a perfectly circular cone-shaped clay mound standing in a cultivated field. The owner has tried all methods to reduce it so that he could cultivate over it. At the time of our survey this mound measured 80 feet in diameter, and 6 feet 7 inches in height. Originally it stood 18 feet in height." The excavation of Whitehead Mound provided some evidence, but Setzler was unable to reach any “conclusions as to the classification of the culture of the Whitehead Mound.” A few artifacts were found: “one small slate gorget, a broken stone celt blade, broken gorget drilled, one broken antler point, large quantities of potsherds scattered over the floor. The skeletal material consisted of a reburial of 3 skeletons, two groups of undisturbed skeletons”
Source: June 1999 issue of "The Indiana Historian" publication, pages 12-13. See link:
www.in.gov/history/files/archaeoearly.pdf

Further reading and information:
http://www.in.gov/dnr/state-parks/parks-lakes/mounds-state-park/#Maps
Directions: The exact location of this mound is unknown and it's quite possible it was destroyed. Current lat / long is the center of Whitewater Village. That is just an approximation, but it is likely within a mile or so of where the mound was located.

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