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Multi-periodSite Name: Leland Mounds Alternative Name: 22WS501Country: United States Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Leland MS
Latitude: 33.418900N Longitude: 90.89097W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Leland is one of a number of smaller Mississippian ceremonial mound sites that were likely constructed after the large Winterville site. It is not on the Mississippi Mound Trail but is designated as an "Indian Mound" on USGS topo maps.
As with many of these more modest late Mississippian sites in the Yazoo basin, this site is located close to Deer Creek. It is in the Lake George Phase of the Mississippian period which dates it between 1350-1500 CE.
Descriptions of this site appear in the Bureau of American Ethnology’s (BAE) Mound report and in Archaeology of Mississippi (Brown 1926:81-82).
The Leland site originally included five mounds (although the illustration in the BAE Mound report indicates up to seven [Thomas 1894: Figure 161]) arranged around a roughly square plaza about 75 m on a side. Today two rectangular platform mounds remain. Mound A, the larger of the two, is on the east side of the plaza with a westward facing ramp. Mound B is perhaps 50 m northwest of Mound A. Brown (1926:79-80), based on the BAE Mound report, gives the following dimensions: Mound A is 30 ft high, and 200 by 175 ft at the base, Mound B is 15 ft high.
The area surrounding the mounds is cultivated and there is a cemetery atop one of the mounds. The site is on private property.
Location coordinates are for Mound A.
Source:
- H. Edwin Jackson 2013: Phase I Planning Document, Mississippi Mounds Trail, Middle Segment. Report submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson. Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
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