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Multi-periodSite Name: Whitehead MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 22.655 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Village: Whitewater Village, IN
Latitude: 39.944820N Longitude: 84.83102W
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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Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest
Frank Setzler surveyed and excavated the Whitehead Mound and several other mounds in the Whitewater River Valley in the late 1920s. Quotations are from his report: "The mound was located in Whitewater Township, Franklin County a few miles west of the Ohio border. It was a perfectly circular cone-shaped clay mound standing in a cultivated field. The owner has tried all methods to reduce it so that he could cultivate over it. At the time of our survey this mound measured 80 feet in diameter, and 6 feet 7 inches in height. Originally it stood 18 feet in height." The excavation of Whitehead Mound provided some evidence, but Setzler was unable to reach any “conclusions as to the classification of the culture of the Whitehead Mound.” A few artifacts were found: “one small slate gorget, a broken stone celt blade, broken gorget drilled, one broken antler point, large quantities of potsherds scattered over the floor. The skeletal material consisted of a reburial of 3 skeletons, two groups of undisturbed skeletons”
Source: June 1999 issue of "The Indiana Historian" publication, pages 12-13. See link:
www.in.gov/history/files/archaeoearly.pdf
Further reading and information:
http://www.in.gov/dnr/state-parks/parks-lakes/mounds-state-park/#Maps
Directions: The exact location of this mound is unknown and it's quite possible it was destroyed. Current lat / long is the center of Whitewater Village. That is just an approximation, but it is likely within a mile or so of where the mound was located.
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