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<< Other Photo Pages >> Kings Crossing Mounds - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by Stonetracker on Saturday, 04 February 2023  Page Views: 341

Multi-periodSite Name: Kings Crossing Mounds
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 4.601 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Kings MS
Latitude: 32.401130N  Longitude: 90.85532W
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.
2 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 visited on 1st Oct 2022 - their rating: Amb: 2 Attempted to visit this site, but Mound A is apparently on private property behind some houses. Protective neighborhood dogs dissuaded me from making more of an effort. Mound C may be more accessible behind an abandoned church but I didn't have time to try. The area is very overgrown and winter may be a better time to go there.

Kings Crossing Mounds
Kings Crossing Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Artist's conception of the site. Mound A is on the right. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Kings Crossing site is an archaeological site that is a type site for the Kings Crossing Phase (950-1050 CE) of the Lower Yazoo Basin Coles Creek chronology. The site is located four miles north of the center of Vicksburg, between Chickasaw Bayou and the Illinois Central railroad tracks.

Clarence B. Moore, who visited the site in 1908, described Mound A as being 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, although by the 1950s it had been significantly reduced in height. Mound B has been almost completely leveled, although a small rise can be discerned. Mound C is roughly 12 feet (3.7 m) tall. Mounds A and C are both roughly 120 feet (37 m) sq. Pottery sampling in the 1950s from Mound A gave the site a historical importance out of all proportion to its size. Test pits from a 1949 excavation of the Lake George (Holly Bluff) site produced an important glimpse of a late "transitional" Coles Creek to Plaquemine assemblage featuring thin tapered rims of polished plain ware and carefully executed varieties of Coles Creek incised and associated types. Although intriguing as pottery, it was not sufficiently integrated strategraphically to postulate a distinct phase. Site sampling from the Kings Crossing site in 1954 supplied the integration and gave the phase a name. Since then, especially in the Tensas Basin, it has become one of the firmest and most easily identifiable ceramic complexes in the Lower Mississippi area.

Location coordinates are believed to be at Mound A, since it is the largest remaining mound at the site and shows up as such on shaded relief maps.

For more info, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Crossing_site
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Kings Crossing Mounds
Kings Crossing Mounds submitted by Stonetracker : Photo from the Wikipedia page for Mound A on this site. Creative Commons image. Date appears to be 2005. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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