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Submitted by stonetracker on Friday, 03 February 2023  Page Views: 1407

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.062 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Letourneau MS
Latitude: 32.230100N  Longitude: 90.93605W
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
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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 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 There is a parking pulloff on US Route 61 with site interpretation. However, the mounds are not walking-accessible from Route 61 and two of them (A and D) can only be viewed at a long distance from that highway (the remaining mounds were destroyed some time ago). It may be possible to see the same mounds at much closer range via back roads and a rail line, but I did not investigate.

Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Glass Mounds (Mississippi) submitted by stonetracker : Site interpretation (Vote or comment on this photo)
Glass Mounds is unusual among Plaquemine Period (ca. AD 1200-1600) mound sites in this region in that it is located in the floodplain adjacent to the Mississippi River rather than atop the bluffs, a more typical location. The site originally had four pyramidal mounds surrounding an open plaza, with a possible fifth mound located to the north. Portions of three of the mounds remain, though Mound A alone is undamaged. Mound B and most of Mound C were destroyed in 1973, while Mound D has been damaged by a gas line.

Mound A currently stands at 30 feet high and has a ramp extending south toward the plaza. Recent professional archaeological excavations uncovered the remains of two wattle and daub structures associated with the final summit occupation of Mound A. These buildings were likely the homes of powerful Native American political or religious leaders. Both structures were burned to the ground upon abandonment and the remains were capped by a layer of mound fill sometime during the 16th or early 17th century. The practice of burning and burying mound-top structures is common for this time period and may have happened upon the death of the persons who lived in them.

Much less is known about the remaining mounds, but we do know that Mounds B and C were both used for burial of the dead. A local avocational archaeologist recorded three stratigraphic layers of Mound C's eroded southern face before its destruction in 1973. The earliest of these was a "burial layer," followed by a thin band of yellow soil and then covered by a layer of basket-loaded mound fill. Several notable artifacts also came from Mound C, including pottery, celts, stone palettes, and a limestone human effigy pipe. The pipe and a number of pottery vessels are currently on display at the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg.

The location coordinates given are for Mound A.
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Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Glass Mounds (Mississippi) submitted by stonetracker : 2012 mound layout map (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Glass Mounds (Mississippi) submitted by AKFisher : These are the Glass Mounds on the Mississippi Mound Trail. Nearly all these sites are on private property and often they are far in the distance. To the far left and right center, two prominent mounds are visible. These were built around AD 1200. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Glass Mounds (Mississippi) submitted by AKFisher (Vote or comment on this photo)

Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Glass Mounds (Mississippi) submitted by AKFisher : Two of the overgrown Glass Mounds on the official Mississippi Mound Trail. A railroad was cut between them. The site was established in AD 600 but the mounds are dated to AD 1200. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Glass Mounds by stonetracker on Thursday, 16 November 2023
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A little confusing because it is not possible to get a good viewing angle from the highway. I'm fairly confident the grove in the center of the video is Mound A, as it is the tallest mound. Mounds B and C were mostly or completely destroyed in the early 1970s. Mound D was damaged but is apparently still extant. It's not obvious in the video, but it would be behind and slightly to the left of A.
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