<< Text Pages >> Fort McCoy - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Fort McCoy Alternative Name: West Praire Mound GroupCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 69.259 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: LaCross, Wisconsin
Latitude: 44.021000N Longitude: 90.689W
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 |
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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 |
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Various sites in Monroe County, Wisconsin. This US Army Reserve Command site contains over 200 registered archeological sites and like many large US military facilities, Fort McCoy has its own dedicated archeaologist. And small excavations are carried out seasonally.
Tool finds, remains, and settlement locations date back to 7000BC. The area is associated with the modern Ho-Chunk people.
Although the Fort can be visited by civilians for a variety of recreation activities, the accessibility and exact locations of the various sites are not immediately available.
(The West Praire Mound Group lies within the Fort. These mounds were identified by oral tradition to have been natural features, but their striking visual resemblance to artifical mounds led to a ground penetrating rador survey which appears to have settled the matter with a finding that the mounds are not man-made.) Location given is general for the property, and not for any particular site.
Note: Ceramic find at Wisconsin Army base. Archaeology standard operating procedure.
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