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Multi-periodSite Name: Mounds (Indiana) - Fiddleback MoundCountry: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Anderson, Indiana
Latitude: 40.094700N Longitude: 85.6233W
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: 4 Access: 3 Visited in late Oct 2023. Ditch, embankment, and middle "pinch points" clearly visible. The earthwork is just to the west of the Great Mound and easily accessed via trail.
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Fiddleback Mound is an enclosure in the shape of a lobed oval, somewhat like a guitar or fiddle body approximately 210 feet by 150 feet. The encircling ditch is roughly 3 feet deep.
The center of the enclosure is somewhat elevated over the surrounding surface, giving the appearance of two low mounds. Like the Great Mound the enclosure also has an opening gateway.
Excavations show that the structure (120 BC) was built after the features of the Great Mound structure were complete. The "mound" area in the center was prepared by burning the surface of cleared soil, and then topping that surface with soil brought in from another area - soil that included trash heap or midden material, including animal bone, pottery shards, and fragments of fire heated stone (such as used for cooking.) The surrounding enclosure embankment was created from the ditch dug around the mound.
On the sunset of the summer solstice observers in the center of the Great Mound would see the summer solstice sunset beyond Fiddle Mound.
With no sign of a settlement among the mounds and earthworks the site is assumed (like many other Adena or Hopewell Woodland mound and earthwork sites) to have had a ceremonial use as part of a complex of mounds. Fiddle Mound, as well as the entire site, lies on a bluff overlooking the White River. The location given is approximate.
[Information from Mounds State Park information pamphlets, and "The Archaeology of Anderson Mounds, Mounds State Park, Anderson Indiana" by Donald Cochran and Beth McCord, 2001.]
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