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Submitted by stonetracker on Saturday, 18 February 2023  Page Views: 1092

Multi-periodSite Name: Bessemer Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 16.096 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Bessemer AL
Latitude: 33.401330N  Longitude: 86.9501W
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
Destroyed Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data 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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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
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Bessemer Mounds
Bessemer Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Excavation of one of the mounds in 1930s. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/bessemer/. Sponsor: University of Alabama. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This cluster of mounds known as the Bessemer Site was the largest indigenous mound site in what is now Jefferson County, and it once dominated a large territory in what became north-central Alabama. In the 1930s, archaeologists and labourers completely excavated all three mounds, so no above-ground evidence remains. Archive photo courtesy University of Alabama. Occupied from about AD/CE 1150 to 1250 during the early Mississippian period, the site included the three mounds near the confluence of Halls Mill Creek and Valley Creek.

These mounds included a residential mound, a small burial mound, and a large ceremonial mound. The two-tiered ceremonial mound was built atop an unusual stone foundation that is rarely seen associated with mounds in the Southeast. Other unique features included preserved stair-steps on the residential mound and the remnants of a double-walled palisade encircling the burial mound. Beneath the mounds, archaeologists also discovered the remains of buildings and other structures that pre-dated construction of the mounds.

During the mounds’ occupation, an active village surrounded the site where people lived in rectangular wattle and daub houses with thatched roofs. In the bottomlands along Valley Creek beyond the mound center, members of this community cultivated important food crops such as corn, beans, squash, amaranth, and sunflower, and supplemented these crops by gathering fruits and nuts, hunting game, and fishing.

Location coordinates are for the Bessemer Hall of History Museum on Alabama Ave. A historical marker for the mounds is located in the breezeway of the museum.

For more info, see Alabama Mound/Bessemer Trail.
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Bessemer Mounds
Bessemer Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Archaeological reconstruction of the Bessemer Mounds in Alabama, AKA Tally & Jonesboro Mounds. The mounds were built ca. AD 500. This was the focal point of a village of at least 1000 people. From the Alabama mound book. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bessemer Mounds
Bessemer Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Photo of an early 1930s excavation of the mounds. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bessemer Mounds
Bessemer Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Another perspective of excavation in 1930s. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/bessemer/. Sponsor: University of Alabama. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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