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<< Our Photo Pages >> Commerce Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by stonetracker on Friday, 08 March 2024  Page Views: 80

Multi-periodSite Name: Commerce Mounds Alternative Name: Commerce Landing, 13-O-11
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 38.069 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Robinsonville MS
Latitude: 34.819190N  Longitude: 90.3853W
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.
no data 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
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stonetracker saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 This is on a large private farm with no close access and no safe on-street parking. There are private pkg lots across the main paved road about 1000 ft from the site where remote viewing is possible with some walking.

Commerce Mounds
Commerce Mounds submitted by stonetracker : View of the one remaining large platform mound. Site is on private property, so the closest approach is about 1000 ft. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in The South

The Commerce site consists of a large rectangular platform mound with a ramp on its southern face. Five small mounds positioned west of the central mound were visible as late 1940, but are no longer evident. The main house of a farm headquarters is located immediately east of the central mound. Several other residences and outbuildings are also located in the immediate vicinity of the mound complex. The Commerce site takes its name from the now defunct port town of Commerce.

Clarence B. Moore (1911) excavated 29 burials from the top of the central mound which included a subadult burial with a shell gorget. He also recovered 12 vessels. Moore noted that historic burials were also present at the mound summit.

Ford and Griffin surveyed the site in 1940, took photographs, made a surface collection and drew a site map. The site map depicts a large mound with a south facing ramp and five small mounds to the west of the main mound.

Currently, the central Mound A is still visible, but has been impacted by historic construction and agricultural activity. The smaller mounds have been destroyed by this same activity. The surrounding landscape is under cultivation.

Source of description and maps:

- Travis Cureton, Stephen Harris, Erica Carpenter, and Jay K. Johnson
2014: Mississippi Mound Trail, Northern Region: Phase I Investigations. Report submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. Center for Archaeological Research, University of Mississippi, Oxford.
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Commerce Mounds
Commerce Mounds submitted by stonetracker : 1940s archaeologist's sketch map of site. Note the presence of smaller mounds, now gone. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Commerce Mounds
Commerce Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Shaded relief map of site (Vote or comment on this photo)

Commerce Mounds
Commerce Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Contour map of site (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Commerce Mounds by stonetracker on Friday, 08 March 2024
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A closer look. Pardon the fuzziness of the phone video, taken from1000 ft away.

photos.app.goo.gl/NhiSWDxbPFvh6GRD8

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Re: Commerce Mounds by stonetracker on Friday, 08 March 2024
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