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Multi-periodSite Name: Lessley MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 93.799 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Lessley MS
Latitude: 31.158351N Longitude: 91.44012W
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 |
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Artificial Mound in The South
The Lessley Mound is a beautiful and well-preserved example of Native American mound construction in Mississippi. Built during the late Coles Creek or early Plaquemine Period (ca. AD 1100-1350), the site consists of a single large rectangular platform mound. The mound was built in at least two stages, according to professional archaeologists who excavated portions of it in 2013. Additional mound stages are likely to exist but were not encountered in their excavations. Excavators also found post holes and evidence of burning underneath the mound. This evidence, plus pottery, stone tools, and other residential debris indicate that people lived at the site well before they built the mound. Artifacts from the upper portions of the excavation indicate that mound use continued well into the Plaquemine period, perhaps until the mid-17th century. Today, the Lessley family graveyard is located on the summit of the mound, while additional unmarked graves are located at the base. Presumably, the site would have had a village area in addition to the mound, though this has not been confirmed.
Location coordinates at summit of the mound.
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