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Location coordinates:
35.49532, -88.68099
From a 1988 report published in American Antiquity, 1988, by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr:
"Mound 10, an irregular-shaped mound measuring 61 m long, 40 m wide, and 1.3 m high, is located approximately 100 m east of Mound 9 (Sauls' Mound).
The excavations demonstrated that Mound 10 was a flat-topped earthwork, and a large fire basin
was exposed immediately below the plow zone, near the center of the mound. No other prehistoric features were encountered, but this may be a function of the limited area examined...The hearth yielded a number of burned wood fragments that produced uncorrected dates of A.D. 65 ± 130 and A.D. 270 ± 85 (Mainfort 1986), implying that Mound 10 was constructed approximately 100 years after the completion of Mound 5 (Ozier Mound). The dates from Mounds 5 and 10 and the uniform artifact assemblage from the site indicate that all are of Middle Woodland affiliation and probably were constructed between about 50 B.C. and A.D. 300 (Mainfort 1980, 1986; Morse 1986)."
Mainfort later notes that Mound 10 seems to postdate most other major mound construction at Pinson.
35.49532, -88.68099
From a 1988 report published in American Antiquity, 1988, by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr:
"Mound 10, an irregular-shaped mound measuring 61 m long, 40 m wide, and 1.3 m high, is located approximately 100 m east of Mound 9 (Sauls' Mound).
The excavations demonstrated that Mound 10 was a flat-topped earthwork, and a large fire basin
was exposed immediately below the plow zone, near the center of the mound. No other prehistoric features were encountered, but this may be a function of the limited area examined...The hearth yielded a number of burned wood fragments that produced uncorrected dates of A.D. 65 ± 130 and A.D. 270 ± 85 (Mainfort 1986), implying that Mound 10 was constructed approximately 100 years after the completion of Mound 5 (Ozier Mound). The dates from Mounds 5 and 10 and the uniform artifact assemblage from the site indicate that all are of Middle Woodland affiliation and probably were constructed between about 50 B.C. and A.D. 300 (Mainfort 1980, 1986; Morse 1986)."
Mainfort later notes that Mound 10 seems to postdate most other major mound construction at Pinson.
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