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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Wilson Mounds and Village Site Alternative Name: Marshall Ferry Cemetery SiteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 42.05 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Rising Sun, IL
Latitude: 37.999840N Longitude: 88.03197W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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 |
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Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest
The Wilson Mounds and Village Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located in and around the Marshall Ferry Cemetery in Rising Sun, White County, Illinois. The site includes twelve Hopewell burial mounds and a village site.
History:
The site was inhabited by Hopewell peoples from approximately 400 B.C. to 400 A.D.
Excavations at the site began in the 1940s;[by whom?] the first formal investigations were conducted the following decade by the Illinois State Museum and the University of Chicago. The site was part of a trade network which spanned much of the eastern United States, as resources from as far away as North Carolina and the Lake Superior region have been found at the site. Two different skeletal types have been recovered from the site, indicating the presence of multiple cultures at the village. The site also includes a prehistoric cemetery in addition to burial mounds, suggesting that burials were organized based on social status.[2]
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1977.[1]
References:
1. National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Bodner, Connie. National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Wilson Mounds and Village Site. National Park Service, 1976-07.
Further reading and information:
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Mounds_and_Village_Site.
RouteYou
http://www.routeyou.com/en-us/location/view/51501559/wilson-mounds-and-village-site.
Directions:
Via County Rd 1930E and County Rd 830N, .3 mi.
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