<< Our Photo Pages >> Mounds State Park (Indiana) - Earthwork D - Misc. Earthwork in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Multi-periodSite Name: Mounds State Park (Indiana) - Earthwork D Alternative Name: Mounds Park, Mounds State ParkCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.892 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Anderson, Indiana
Latitude: 40.093763N Longitude: 85.623864W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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stonetracker visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Visited in late Oct 2023. This is ~ 150 yds or so southwest of the Great Mound, about 100 ft NE off of a side trail. Requires a bit more walking than the other earthworks closer to the Great Mound.
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Earthwork D is a circular enclosure about 100 feet in diameter with a central platform about 45 feet across. Forest debris slowly covered this enclosure. Now the encircling ditch is less than a foot deep, but excavations show that it was originally 2-3 feet deep, similar to nearby Fiddleback Enclosure.
Although it was recorded in the 1800's it was "lost" in the early 1900's and only rediscovered during Ball State University survey in 1988.
Excavations show that the structure (120 BC) was built after the features of the Great Mound structure were complete. On the sunset of the summer solstice observers in the center of the Great Mound would see the summer solstice sunset beyond Earthwork D. As with the other earthworks of the Mounds southern complex, Earthwork D lies on a bluff overlooking the White River. The location given is approximate.
[Information from Mounds State Park information pamphlets, and "The Archaeology of Anderson Mounds, Mounds State Park, Anderson Indiana" by Donald Cochran and Beth McCord, 2001.]
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