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Serpent Mound, Ohio
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2006
Serpent Mound, Ohio submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2006. Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio.
View looking toward the serpent "tail" which curls into a tight spiral. This view is to the west and taken from ground level. Note the size by the three figures walking between the coils of the tail. The horizontal line just above and beyond the mound is a guard rail installed to prevent people from falling down the steep face of the hillside and into Brush Creek below. The mound was built at the very edge of a narrow ridgeline that drops off on three sid...
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Angel Mounds - Mound A
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound A submitted by bat400 on 22nd Jun 2006. Mound A, the "Chief's" Mound, at Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana.
This view is from the south west. Stairs have been installed to allow a visitor to climb to the top of the mound while still preventing errosion. The main excavation at Angel was done by Glenn Black in the 1930's and 40's. He felt that differences in vegetation indicated that a wooden stairway had once existed in the mound on this face.
Photo copyright by bat400, June 2006.
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Angel Mounds - Mound F
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound F submitted by bat400 on 24th Jun 2006. Angel Mounds - Mound F. Vanderburgh Co., Indiana.
The temple mound. At one time the mound had an ornate high status building on it. Indications are that the building had ritual use.
Photo by bat400.
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Angel Mounds Museum
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 24th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds Museum submitted by bat400 on 24th Jun 2006. Angel Mounds Historical Site Museum and Visitor's Center.
A view of the exterior. Directly behind the museum building is the footbridge to the large town site.
The building includes the museum, gift shop, WCs, and all you'd expect. But in a twist there are meeting rooms and a kitchen you can rent. Have your wedding and reception at a prehistoric site? You can do it!
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Angel Mounds - Mound G
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jun 2006
Angel mounds - Mound G submitted by bat400 on 27th Jun 2006. Mound G - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Conical Earthwork Mound from the Woodland period.
This mound is part of the Angel property but lies outside the town site and was created by people of the Woodland period, well before the Angel Mounds town was built. Its directly on the city street opposite the entrance to the Angel site.
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Angel Mounds - Mound E
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2006
Angel Mounds - Mound E submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. Mound E - Angel Mounds, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
Earthwork Mound. Platform Mound.
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Bundy-Voyles Site
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jun 2006
Bundy-Voyles Site submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. Bundy-Voyles Site, Morgan County, Indiana.
Village / Settlement Site.
Well, here it is! All that is visible today, nearly ten years after the dig shut down.
Photo by bat400, May 2006.
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Reily Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 9th Oct 2006
Reily Cemetery Mound submitted by bat400 on 9th Oct 2006. The villagers of Reily, Ohio placed their own cemetery around this prehistoric Indian mound. This use of mound sites for European-American burials was common in the Midwest, settled in the 1820's to 1840's.
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Enyart Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 9th Oct 2006
Enyart Mound submitted by bat400 on 9th Oct 2006. Enyart Mound, Butler County, Ohio
Prehistoric, but not attributted to a particular culture. This is a reconstruction to restore the original 1870's survey height of the mound (6 feet.) The figures at the left, beyond the mound are a bit taller than 5 feet.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Fiddleback Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Fiddleback Mound submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Fiddleback Enclosure
The enclosure is oblong with a constricted middle; it's difficult to see from a single observation point on the ground. The summer solstice sunset falls beyond this enclosure when viewed from the center of the Great Mound.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Circle Mound Enclosure
A stitched photo. The viewer is standing before the entrance, looking due west, into the enclosure.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds State Park (Indiana) - Earthwork D
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork D submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Earthwork D.
"Lost" until 1988 when underbrush was removed from the site. Woods now block a clear view between the Great Mound and the center of this smaller, now shallow earthwork. The winter solstice sunset falls beyond the center of this enclosure when viewed from the center of the Great Mound. The forest debris slowly filled in the ditch within the outer embankment ring.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork B
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork B submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Earthwork B.
The earthwork is oval, with an "entrance" on each end, and very small, only 8-9 feet long. It is in the immediate foreground, only an indentation. The Great Mound can be seen in the background, behind the rail fence.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Great Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Great Mound submitted by bat400 on 22nd Oct 2006. Mounds - The Great Mound.
View from the east with wild asters, the last flower of the season. The outer embankment wall prevents an outside viewer from seeing the central platform within. The exceptions are three dips in the embankment allowing a line of sight to the centers of three smaller earthwork enclosures surrounding the Great Mound.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Chrysler Enclosure
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
Chrysler Enclosure submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2007. Chrysler Enclosure, Henry County, IN.
Circular Earthwork Enclosure.
An earthen ring thrown up on the outside of a circular ditch, about 30 ft dia. The ditch is broken by an entry way sited to align the center of the enclosure with the winter solstice sunrise.
Photo by bat400 Oct 2006.
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Sam Chucalo Mound
Trip No.2 Entry No.11 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007
Sam Chucalo Mound submitted by bat400 on 1st Jul 2007. Perserved in a residential neighborhood outside of East St. Louis. This may be a remnant of a large mound group, a "suburban" Cahokia.
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Cahokia - Mound 60
Trip No.2 Entry No.6 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 60 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Fox Mound (Mound 60) and Roundtop Mound (Mound 59). These "Twin Mounds" are located at the southern edge of the huge central plaza bounded by Monk's Mound on the north. The view is from Monk's Mound.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Monk's Mound
Trip No.2 Entry No.8 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. The twin mounds of Fox and Roundtop can be seen over the south west "lip" on the lower platform of Monk's Mound. At one time there was a small building here.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 42
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007
Cahokia - Mound 42 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 42 was a platform mound directly west of Monk's Mound. Originally there was a smaller, oval second platform on its SW corner. Beyond this well-preserved mound you can make out a low mound partially blocking the view of the Woodhenge reconstruction (where the cars are parked.)
Looming up on the horizon is the East St Louis landfill, a modern testiment to our never ending consumption.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Stockade
Trip No.2 Entry No.7 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cahokia - Stockade submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. View of the stockade reconstruction from the top platform of Monk's Mound. We are looking east toward modern Collinsville. It's difficult to see with the overcast light, but there are the faint undulations of multiple mounds in the field beyond the stockade line. The stockade reconstruction is built on the original location. Two open archaeological units are part of summer digs.
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