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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound Alternative Name: Upper Sugarloaf, Sonotabac, Son of Tabac Mound, the village of Piankashaw, Chipkawkay, CasquiCountry: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Vincennes, IN
Latitude: 38.670667N Longitude: 87.506283W
Condition:
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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". Text edited by bat400.
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