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Submitted by symbionspacesuit on Friday, 12 February 2010  Page Views: 10692

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound Alternative Name: Upper Sugarloaf, Sonotabac, Son of Tabac Mound, the village of Piankashaw, Chipkawkay, Casqui
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Vincennes, IN
Latitude: 38.670667N  Longitude: 87.506283W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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
0No data.
5 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
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Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : Sugarloaf Mound of Indiana (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cemetery Mound in Knox County, Indiana.
Sugarloaf mound lies in the neighborhood to the east of downtown Vincennes, IN. Sugarloaf is unusually placed straddling the edge of a bluff, making for the appearance of a larger mound on the downhill side.

Sugarloaf has a base of two hundred and sixteen feet from east to west by one hundred and eighty feet from north to south, rising to a height of forty four feet above the bluff and rising with bluff and mound to one hundred and forty feet above the plain of Vincennes. With a sixteen by twenty five feet platform area Sugarloaf holds a broad view over Vincennes.
Vincennes and the rest of Knox county once held the largest concentration of moundbuilder architecture within the state of Indiana. Most were destroyed through agriculture and the erecting of the modern Vincennes. Though only a few of more than two hundred mounds that use to populate Knox County still exist, they are of the largest in the state.
For over two hundred years Sugarloaf was thought to be an artificial structure, and was "crowded with intrusive burials" (History of Old Vincennes and Knox County Indiana, George Green, 1911). A shaft sunk into the mound showed ashes, interpreted as layers, and loess sands. More recent researchers have declared the mound as a natural feature used for prehistoric burials ("The geomorphology of Sugar Loaf Mound: Prehistoric cemeteries and the formation of loess cones in the lower Wabash Valley", C. Russell Stafford, 1998.)
The area has been claimed as the site of "Casqui", a major town visited by Hernando DeSoto's expedition, by researchers who support a northern route. Parkin, Arkansas has also been claimed as the site of "Casqui".
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Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : the downhill side of Sugarloaf (Vote or comment on this photo)

Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound submitted by durhamnature : Old picture from "Prehistoric America; The Mound Builders" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit : looking west across Vincennes, IN from the top of Sugarloaf (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound by Anonymous on Saturday, 31 July 2010
I live in Vincennes, IN and I go to this mound every couple of weeks or so. The trail leading to the top is good enough that my 3, 5 and 7 year old children have no problems making it. There are several houses very close by. It is quite a pretty view from the top.
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