<< Other Photo Pages >> Dunn Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South
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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Dunn MoundsCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 9.123 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Clarksdale MS
Latitude: 34.216130N Longitude: 90.47574W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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stonetracker saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 All of the mounds are on private residential property and farm land, so viewing is only possible from a distance. There is a parking pulloff next to the interpretive sign about 200 yds north of Mound A and considerably farther away from the other mounds.
Mound A is easily visible although quite overgrown, even in winter. A house sits on a very low rise which is presumably Mound B. I was unable to locate Mound C in the farm field.
Visible from State Highway 6, the Dunn site consists of three earthen mounds. Mound A, the largest, has an unusual elongated oval shape and varies considerably in summit height. The northwestern portion of the mound is just over 16 feet tall, while the southeastern portion is a little over half that. Mounds B and C have been diminished by erosion and are currently less than three feet in height. In 2013, professional archaeologists excavated a portion of the northwestern slope of Mound A. They found that the mound was built in two stages - a broad flat apron topped by a long narrow second construction stage. Large amounts of structural debris were present in the upper levels of the mound slope, suggesting that a building located on the mound summit was pushed over the edge of the mound after its destruction. Pottery and other artifacts recovered from the site indicate that Native American people built the mounds during the Early Mississippi Period or perhaps a bit earlier, from ca. AD 1000-1300.
Location of coordinates is Mound A.
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