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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Glass Mounds (Mississippi)Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 7.953 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Letourneau MS
Latitude: 32.230100N Longitude: 90.93605W
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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stonetracker visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 There is a parking pulloff on US Route 61 with site interpretation. However, the mounds are not walking-accessible from Route 61 and two of them (A and D) can only be viewed at a long distance from that highway (the remaining mounds were destroyed some time ago). It may be possible to see the same mounds at much closer range via back roads and a rail line, but I did not investigate.
Mound A currently stands at 30 feet high and has a ramp extending south toward the plaza. Recent professional archaeological excavations uncovered the remains of two wattle and daub structures associated with the final summit occupation of Mound A. These buildings were likely the homes of powerful Native American political or religious leaders. Both structures were burned to the ground upon abandonment and the remains were capped by a layer of mound fill sometime during the 16th or early 17th century. The practice of burning and burying mound-top structures is common for this time period and may have happened upon the death of the persons who lived in them.
Much less is known about the remaining mounds, but we do know that Mounds B and C were both used for burial of the dead. A local avocational archaeologist recorded three stratigraphic layers of Mound C's eroded southern face before its destruction in 1973. The earliest of these was a "burial layer," followed by a thin band of yellow soil and then covered by a layer of basket-loaded mound fill. Several notable artifacts also came from Mound C, including pottery, celts, stone palettes, and a limestone human effigy pipe. The pipe and a number of pottery vessels are currently on display at the Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg.
The location coordinates given are for Mound A.
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