Lamar Mounds

The Lamar Mounds and Village, a detached unit of Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon, is the type site for a widespread Mississippian/protohistoric culture. The town covered approximately 21.5 acres and was surrounded by a log pallisade. Two mounds were constructed: Mound A, a 25' high, truncated, rectangular temple mound; and Mound B, a slightly smaller, circular, flat-topped mound ascended counter-clockwise by a spiral ramp. This spiral ramp is the only one now known to exist, though early records describe such a ramp at the now-submerged Rembert Mound in North Georgia and another may once have been located in Alabama. The "spiral mound" at the Lamar Village has never been archeologically tested.

- www.nps.gov/archive/ocmu/Late-Miss.htm

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