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<< Other Photo Pages >> Blakeley Indian Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Blakeley Indian Mounds Alternative Name: Cockle Shell Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 56.163 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Spanish Fort, Alabam  Nearest Village: Bromley, Alabama
Latitude: 30.747500N  Longitude: 87.9202W
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.
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.
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
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Blakeley Indian Mounds
Blakeley Indian Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Cockleshell Mound in Historic Blakeley Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mounds in Baldwin County, Alabama.
The aboriginal mounds at Historic Blakeley State Park are to the northeast of the old town site of Blakeley and are seperated from it by the Old Bayou Beaver Pond. The round shell midden is one of the largest of it's kind in the southeast and is barely noticable, as a forest is atop it's gentle slopes.

Though caution should be taken on the descent from it to the bridge seperating it from the immense sguare mound to it's east. The dimensions of the square mound are approximately 100 feet sq. at the base by probably 50 feet sq. at the summit while being around 30 feet high. The shell midden is approximately the same height, though, to even guess at the dimension of it's base would mean cutting away a great deal of the foliage around it.

See the park website below for a Nature Trail map that appears to show Trail 7 as the "Cockleshell Mound Trail".]

The Bottle Creek mound complex is close by to the west in the confluence of several rivers which flow into Mobile Bay which is 9 miles to the south. This lends to the possibly that the Blakeley Mounds were developed by a group associated with the Bottle Creek Mounds close by. The Bottle Creek Mound ceremonial complex was developed between 1200 to 1450 A.C.E. to be the largest Mississippian complex on the north-central Gulf Coast. This may give some indication of the age of the Blakeley site.

The environs of this site had been settled by the French and a group from the Appalachee tribe (possibly out of Spanish Florida 24 miles to the east) as soon as 1704 with no break in the subsequent groups that settled afterward. Blakeley comprises the eastern shore of Mobile Bay and is one of the most historic locations on the Gulf Coast. Blakeley State Park website.
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Blakeley Indian Mounds
Blakeley Indian Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Obscure Mounds: Cockleshell Mound in Historic Blakeley State Park in Alabama. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Blakeley Indian Mounds
Blakeley Indian Mounds submitted by AKFisher : Cockleshell Mound in Old Blakeley State Park, Spanish Fort, Alabama. 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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 29.3km N 356° Bottle Creek* Ancient Village or Settlement
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