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Submitted by stonetracker on Friday, 17 November 2023  Page Views: 143

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Glass Mounds (Tennessee) Alternative Name: 40WM3
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Franklin  Nearest Village: Westhaven
Latitude: 35.934950N  Longitude: 86.93507W
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
3 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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Glass Mounds (Tennessee)
Glass Mounds (Tennessee) submitted by AKFisher : One of the two mounds at the Glass Mounds site near Nashville, Tennessee. They were made around AD 200. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Glass Mounds site in Williamson County is the only known Woodland period multi-mound center in the Cumberland River watershed of Tennessee. During the late nineteenth century the site’s four earthen mounds were prominent fixtures on the landscape of the Harpeth River Valley and attracted attention from antiquarian archaeologists. Excavations by focused on the mounds, and recovered artifacts are diagnostic of the Middle Woodland period of regional prehistory (ca. 1-500 CE). Among these materials were copper masks, “panpipes” and earspools, demonstrating that residents here participated in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere,

This was a pan-regional exchange network of exotic goods centered on Hopewell cultures of the Ohio Valley . The combined impacts of antiquarian investigation, historic phosphate mining, and late twentieth century development ultimately destroyed the majority of theGlass Mounds site. Today two remaining conical earthworks are incorporated within a residential community and golf club, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in June 2015 (Smith and Deter-Wolf 2014).

Note: Description above taken from TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 10 Fall 2020 Number 2, "Antiquarian Investigations and Archaeological Testing at the Glass Mounds Site (40WM3), Williamson County, Tennessee" by AARON DETER-WOLF and KEVIN E. SMITH

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Glass Mounds (Tennessee)
Glass Mounds (Tennessee) submitted by AKFisher : Historical marker on site. Constructed around AD 200, the Glass Mounds site originally had 4 mounds. A golf course is adjacent to the site. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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