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<< Our Photo Pages >> Choccolocco Creek Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by stonetracker on Saturday, 11 February 2023  Page Views: 546

Multi-periodSite Name: Choccolocco Creek Mounds Alternative Name: Part of the Choccolocco Creek Archaeological Complex
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 4.417 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Boiling Spring AL
Latitude: 33.603710N  Longitude: 85.79186W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4 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
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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
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Choccolocco Creek Mounds
Choccolocco Creek Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Reconstructed large mound. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/choccolocco/. Sponsor: University of Alabama (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in The South

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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Choccolocco Creek Mounds
Choccolocco Creek Mounds submitted by Dodomad : Choccolocco Park at Oxford, Alabama, essentially the focal point of stone mounds & archaeological controversy in Alabama. The state has officially identified hundreds of ancient stone mounds and this is the largest one. It was removed from a mountain and rebuilt in this park. Sample pages from the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016) by Dr Greg Little (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choccolocco Creek Mounds
Choccolocco Creek Mounds submitted by Dodomad (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choccolocco Creek Mounds
Choccolocco Creek Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Reconstructed large mound. Same photo source as above. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Choccolocco Creek Mounds
Choccolocco Creek Mounds submitted by stonetracker (Vote or comment on this photo)

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