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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Glass Mounds (Tennessee) Alternative Name: 40WM3Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 46.057 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Franklin Nearest Village: Westhaven
Latitude: 35.934950N Longitude: 86.93507W
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 |
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The Glass Mounds site in Williamson County is the only known Woodland period multi-mound center in the Cumberland River watershed of Tennessee. During the late nineteenth century the site’s four earthen mounds were prominent fixtures on the landscape of the Harpeth River Valley and attracted attention from antiquarian archaeologists. Excavations by focused on the mounds, and recovered artifacts are diagnostic of the Middle Woodland period of regional prehistory (ca. 1-500 CE). Among these materials were copper masks, “panpipes” and earspools, demonstrating that residents here participated in the Hopewell Interaction Sphere,
This was a pan-regional exchange network of exotic goods centered on Hopewell cultures of the Ohio Valley . The combined impacts of antiquarian investigation, historic phosphate mining, and late twentieth century development ultimately destroyed the majority of theGlass Mounds site. Today two remaining conical earthworks are incorporated within a residential community and golf club, and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in June 2015 (Smith and Deter-Wolf 2014).
Note: Description above taken from TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 10 Fall 2020 Number 2, "Antiquarian Investigations and Archaeological Testing at the Glass Mounds Site (40WM3), Williamson County, Tennessee" by AARON DETER-WOLF and KEVIN E. SMITH
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