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<< Our Photo Pages >> Common Fields - Artificial Mound in United States in The Plains

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 16 October 2007  Page Views: 5930

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Common Fields Alternative Name: 69000306
Country: United States Region: The Plains Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Ste Genevieve, MO
Latitude: 37.952720N  Longitude: 90.015W
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
2 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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bat400 visited on 21st Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Used the mound as a backdrop for a series of photographs I took leading up to the total solar eclipse at 1318, 21 Aug 2017. On a previous visit it appeared that a farm road north of the mound was the closest access point (one could drive as far as the railroad,) but the county road south of the mound is a far better view point.

bat400 visited on 18th Oct 2007 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 3

Common Fields
Common Fields submitted by bat400 : Common Fields Site just south east of Ste Genevieve, MO. This mound is all that is left of a small Mississippian village. This view is from the railroad grade just west of the mound. Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Middle Mississippian Mound and Village Site in Ste Genevieve County, MO.
Plowing has eliminated all surface indications of the village, but one mound remains, approximately 10-12 feet high and 100 feet long. Limited test digs date the site culturally to 1000 AD to 1400 AD, and considering that affiliation, it's likely that the mound served as the platform for a building.

You can see the mound from Missouri State Road 61 just south of the village on Ste Genevieve, or from a graveled road turning off SR 61 just south of the mound (called Cottonwood Road or New Bourbon Road, depending on the map you are using.) The mound itself is on private land and there is no access.
Aside from this prehistoric site, Ste Genevieve and the surrounding area has the largest concentration of colonial French architecture in the United States, despite the original town site having been wiped off the earth by Mississippi floods. The earlier Mississippian village is located in what were later the common fields for the colonial village.
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bat400mobile at Common Fields submitted by bat400 : 21 Aug 2017. The bat400mobile at the Common Fields Mound site near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. This was taken about an hour and a half before the total eclipse. (6 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Common Fields
Common Fields submitted by bat400 : A wider field of view. Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tempering Practices in a Mississippian Warscape: Ceramics & Technological Production by Andy B on Wednesday, 06 June 2018
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Tempering Practices in a Mississippian Warscape: Ceramics and Technological Production at the Common Field Site - Meghan Buchanan

Published in the Proceedings of the 45th Annual Chacmool Conference "War and Peace: Conflict and Resolution in Archaeology"

http://hdl.handle.net/1880/52231

https://www.academia.edu/35808737/
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Light Levels with a manual camera during total eclipse 21Aug2017 by bat400 on Sunday, 24 September 2017
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See the link below for an experiment I attempted during the recent solar eclipse in North America. The Common Field village site was directly in the path of totality and I observed from there.

YouTube video of light levels at the Common Fields site during total eclipse.
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