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Multi-periodSite Name: Commerce Mounds Alternative Name: Commerce Landing, 13-O-11Country: 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:
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 |
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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.
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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