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<< Text Pages >> Schwendemann Farm Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in The Plains

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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Schwendemann Farm Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.294 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Plains Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: St. Louis, MO  Nearest Village: St. Peter, MO
Latitude: 38.791000N  Longitude: 90.674W
Condition:
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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
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2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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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
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Artificial Mound in St. Charles County, Missouri.
20 feet high and 100 feet in diameter, this mound has not been conclusively dated, although pottery finds in the area date to the Woodland period of 2000 years ago.

The mound lies on private land and is not accessible. Its unknown whether or not it can be seen from the public road.

Note: Family preserves mound while housing developments bloom around them.
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Family holds on to hallowed ground in Missouri by bat400 on Wednesday, 20 February 2008
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ST. PETERS — Partly obscured by trees, an Indian burial mound lies just off Mexico Road and next to a housing development, where heavy equipment has scraped the earth.

Joe Harl, vice president of the Archaeological Research Center of St. Louis, said the mound — roughly 20 feet high and more than 100 feet in diameter — is likely about 1,000 years old.

Melanie Wasielewski, 60, grew up on the site and remembers as a child picking up arrowheads after her father plowed near the mound to plant crops. Wasielewski, who now lives near Flint Hill, said she and her siblings looked at the mound as just another part of the family farm. She said her mother urged the family to keep in mind that Indian tribes had visited the area in ancient times.

"She told us to just make sure you remember that stuff in case someone tries to buy the property and do something with it," Wasielewski said.

That day has come.
Work is under way on a 400-home development just west of the mound. Construction of the 135-acre Bellemeade subdivision began after the original developer was unable to reach an agreement with relatives of Wasielewski to sell the old Schwendemann family farm.

The St. Peters mound is definitely man-made, said Harl, unlike a spot at Mid Rivers Mall Drive and Highway 94, where experts determined recently that a small mound was a natural formation. Harl said the Bellemeade project will likely unearth Indian artifacts even though home building is not under way near the mound. Burial sites typically are scattered considerable distances from mounds, he said.

He said the St. Peters mound is especially interesting because it is an upland area, far from river bluffs on which mounds were typically built. The site has never been excavated because archaeologists believe the mound was never part of a village.

While souvenir hunters certainly have picked over the site, archaeologists and other experts stay away from Indian sites used primarily as burial grounds, Harl said. Mounds were meant as monuments to tribal leaders buried there, he added.

"It's a way of marking their importance," Harl said.

SCI Engineers, a St. Louis consulting firm, studied the Bellemeade area for the developers and reported finding no significant items, Harl said. Steve Dasovich, head of SCI's cultural resource services, said that unless human remains turned up on the Bellemeade site, the builders were free to continue working. Discovery of remains triggers the state's unmarked burial law, which allows the State Historic Preservation Office to require a study. Dasovich said the "first choice" should be to avoid disturbing such areas.

Harl said that due to its size, the mound is likely from the Mississippian period covering the years 1050 to 1400. But he added that part of the mound might have been built during the Middle Woodland period — from 200 B.C. to A.D. 300 — which could match some of the pottery SCI researchers recovered just south of the mound.

For more, see the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
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