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Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 17 November 2013  Page Views: 3293

Multi-periodSite Name: Bottle Creek Alternative Name: 1Ba2, Mound Island
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 14.596 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Mobile, AL  Nearest Village: Stockton, AL
Latitude: 31.010000N  Longitude: 87.94W
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.
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
0No data.
1 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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Bottle Creek
Bottle Creek submitted by bat400 : Excavation of house footprints. Sometime in the 1990's. Credit: National Park Service. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Town in Baldwin County, Alabama.
A large Mississippian site on the gulf coast. Part of the Pensacola Mississippian culture, the site includes 18 earthen mounds and associated barrow pits and is located on Alabama conservation land in the Tensaw River delta. The principal occupation took place from 1250 AD to 1550 AD.

The largest mound, Mound A, is 45 feet high. The majority of the mounds are assumed to have been platforms for various high status or public structures. Limited excavations were conducted by the University of Alabama in the 1990's.

The site is now heavily wooded and is often described as "pristine" due to its location on an island in the delta. You can access the island directly by private canoe or kayak and follow a trail to the main mound and plaza using a trail map of the Alabama Department of Conservation.

Once or twice a year there are also publicized boat trips starting from Blakeley State Park.

National Register of Historic Places:
Added 1974 - - #74000398. Also a National Historic Landmark.
Historic Significance: Information Potential
Area of Significance: Historic - Aboriginal, Prehistoric
Cultural Affiliation: Fort Walton Period, Missisippian, Santa Rosa-Swift Crk Wdland
Period of Significance: 499-0 AD, 1499-1000 AD, 1000-500 AD
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure, Village Site
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-function: Conservation Area, Unoccupied Land

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Bottle Creek
Bottle Creek submitted by AKFisher : Archaeological reconstruction of the Bottle Creek Mound Complex near Spanish Fort, Alabama by © Carol Hicks from the Alabama mound book. This site remains fairy intact. It is accessed by a boat from Blakeley Park, but only on certain days and times. Because of its remote location, it wasn't destroyed like so many other mound sites. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tours of Bottle Creek Indian Mounds by bat400 on Sunday, 17 November 2013
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Sunday, December 1 & 8
Bottle Creek Indian Mounds
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
$35.00 adults
$17.00 children 6-12

Tours will be conducted by Dr. Greg Waselkov, Director for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama.

For information on registering for these tours, see the Blakeley State Park website.
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