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Multi-periodSite Name: Choccolocco Creek Mounds Alternative Name: Part of the Choccolocco Creek Archaeological ComplexCountry: United States
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Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Boiling Spring AL
Latitude: 33.603710N Longitude: 85.79186W
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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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The Choccolocco Creek Mounds site once consisted of at least three earthen mounds. The largest earthen mound stood high above the Choccolocco Creek floodplain. The earliest earthen mound construction at the site began during the Middle Woodland period (ca. 100 BC to AD 250) when the site became a regionally important ritual center connected through cultural exchanges with groups living on the Gulf Coastal Plain to the south and the Tennessee Valley to the north. Mound construction appears to have resumed at the site around AD 1100 when the inhabitants of the Choccolocco Valley were closely connected with the people of the Etowah site near present-day Cartersville, Georgia.
The original mounds no longer exist. The largest mound was destroyed in the 1950s, but it has been reconstructed and and is now part of an interpretive trail system at Choccolocco Park, open to the public. The reconstructed mound is said to occupy approximately the same location as the original.
Location coordinates are for the rebuilt earthen mound.
For more info, see Alabama Mound Trail: Choccolocco.
The Choccolocco Creek Mounds are just one part of the geographically dispersed Choccolocco Creek Archaeological Complex, that includes:
* The Shelton Stone Mound Complex several miles east of Jacksonville AL.
* The Oxford Stone Mound about 1 km east of Choccolocco Park. This site was destroyed and the stone mound was reconstructed close to the rebuilt earthen mound in Choccolocco Park.
Both of these sites are documented separately on the MP.
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