<< Our Photo Pages >> Pyramid Mound - Barrow Cemetery in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pyramid Mound Alternative Name: Lower Sugarloaf, 12k14, the village of Piankashaw, Chipkawkay, CasquiCountry: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Vincennes, IN
Latitude: 38.654600N Longitude: 87.518667W
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. Pyramid Mound sets to the southeast of Vincennes. U.S. Highway 41 lays across the western terrace of the step pyramid. Pyramid Mound has a base of three hundred and fifty feet from east to west by one hundred and fifty from north to south, and rises to a height of forty seven feet with a fifteen by fifty feet summit on the top terrace.
Vincennes and the rest of Knox county once held the largest concentration of moundbuilder architecture within the state of Indiana. Most were destroyed through agriculture and the erecting of the modern Vincennes. Though only a few of more than two hundred mounds that use to populate Knox County still exist, they are of the largest in the state.
For over two hundred years Pyramid Mound and the nearby Sugarloaf Mound were thought to be an artificial structure, and were "crowded with intrusive burials" (History of Old Vincennes and Knox County Indiana, George Green, 1911). More recent researchers have declared the mounds as a natural feature used for prehistoric burials ("The geomorphology of Sugar Loaf Mound: Prehistoric cemeteries and the formation of loess cones in the lower Wabash Valley", C. Russell Stafford, 1998.) Pyramid Mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The area has been claimed as the site of "Casqui", a major town visited by Hernando DeSoto's expedition, by researchers who support a northern route. Parkin, Arkansas has also been claimed as the site of "Casqui". Text edited by bat400.
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