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Multi-periodSite Name: Metcalfe MoundsCountry: United States
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Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Metcalfe MS
Latitude: 33.468480N Longitude: 91.00034W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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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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This is one of a number of smaller Mississippian ceremonial mound sites that were likely constructed after the large Winterville site. It is not on the Mississippi Mound Trail but is designated as an "Indian Mound" on USGS topo maps.
As with many of these more modest late Mississippian sites in the Yazoo basin, this site is located close to Deer Creek. It is in the Lake George Phase of the Mississippian period which dates it between 1350-1500 CE.
Metcalfe once consisted of four mounds, but it appears that only one exists today. It is on private land.
Source material for this description summarized from:
Glass, Nicholas, "Revisiting Magee: A Mississippian Mound Center Site" (2018). Master's Thesis.
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