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<< Other Photo Pages >> Rockwell - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Rockwell
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Havana, IL
Latitude: 40.304464N  Longitude: 90.063637W
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.
3 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
4

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Rockwell submitted by AKFisher : Rockwell Mound in Rockwell Park at Havana, Illinois. It is a very large, 12-ft tall. 2-acre Hopewell burial mound constructed around AD 200. Test excavations in 1987 confirmed it was a Native American structure via carbon dating of several buried artifacts. Photo: wiki commons, public domain. Description courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Mason County, Illinois. A Woodland era burial mound. Preserved in town park.
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