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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Carter MoundsCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 13.022 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Rolling Fork, MS
Latitude: 33.593600N Longitude: 90.82307W
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 visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Can drive to within 100 ft of Mound B (Mound A is 100 ft behind B and to its right). Parking is available in a pulloff next to the historical marker.
The Carter Site consists of two earthen mounds separated by a plaza area. Although this site is less than two miles away from Rolling Fork to the south and Mont Helena to the north, it was not contemporary with either. Professional archaeologists who excavated at the site in 2013 determined that the mounds were built by Native Americans around AD 1000 and abandoned roughly a century later, perhaps as a result of widespread political reorganization that took place in the region at that time.
Excavations determined that Mound A was built in at least two stages, the first of which had a ramp extending from the summit towards the east. The fill used to build the mound was mined from nearby and contained broken pottery and other refuse that suggests the mounds were built on the site of a Late Woodland village that was continually occupied beginning around AD 400. Mound A is currently 13 feet tall and appears to be in a platform configuration. However, about six feet of the mound's base is covered by accumulated sediment, making it appear much shorter than it is.
Mound B is a burial mound and stands at just under seven feet tall (though its base is also buried by about six feet of sediment). Excavations in the western flank of Mound B revealed that it was constructed in multiple layers using a technique called basket loading. From Mississippi Mound Trail.gov website. (See link below).
Further reading and information:
Mississippi Mound Trail
Historical Marker Database
Directions: From Rolling Fork, MS via N 1st St and Deer Rd., 1.3 mi.
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