Page Site, Kentucky

I've mention Kentucky's "Lost City," also known as the Page Site. It still had 67 mounds in the 1920s and it's thought it originally had 80 or more. In 1928-9 the Univ. of Kentucky's Webb & Funkhouser excavated 18 of them. The contents were unusual in part because of the amount of stone used. Mound 48 was 7 feet high with a base of 40 x 60 feet. Just under a thin layer of external dirt a well-made wall of stone slabs was found that encircled the mound. The wall was 9 feet thick at the bottom and 5 feet thick at the top as it contoured inward. The wall was perfectly vertical in the interior. The wall enclosed a pit 15 x 6 feet and 5 feet deep. The pit had been used as a crematory basin and they were able to count 182 right femurs. (Reports in Archaeology and Anthropology Number 3, May 1930).
Photo and description courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).