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Fort Ancient - Moorehead Circle
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2007
Fort Ancient - Moorehead Circle submitted by bat400 on 21st Sep 2007. A dig unit still open in the North Section. This is in the area of the timber circle that was first found by geophysical surveys in 2005. Several recent digs have focused on this structure.
Photo by bat400, 15 Sept 2007.
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Newark Earthworks - Wright
Date Added: 13th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Newark Earthworks - Wright submitted by durhamnature on 25th Jan 2013. Old drawing of the square from "Archaeological History of Ohio" via archive.org
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Modoc Rock Shelter
Trip No.2 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007
Modoc Rock Shelter submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. A drive-up prehistoric site. Modoc rock shelter lies directly along Illinois State Road 7. Used periodically for 9000 years.
Photo by bat400, Oct 13, 2007.
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Common Fields
Trip No.2 Entry No.13 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The Plains)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Common Fields submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Common Fields Site just south east of Ste Genevieve, MO. This mound is all that is left of a small Mississippian village. This view is from the railroad grade just west of the mound.
Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007.
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Emerald Mound, Illinois
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Emerald Mound was built on the top of a local rise above Silver Creek. A village surrounded this central mound, but very little of any other structures remain.
The mound itself is owned by the State of Illinois, but it is surrounded by privately owned farm land.
Photo by bat400
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Flint Ridge
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2007
Flint Ridge submitted by bat400 on 18th Nov 2007. One of many quarry pits left by ancient stone hunters. The pits were rapidly filling up with fallen leaves when I visited. Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Newark Earthworks - Great Circle
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Nov 2007
Newark Earthworks - Great Circle submitted by bat400 on 25th Nov 2007. Northeast of the "Great Circle" portion of the Newark complex there are earthen walls (each about 3 feet high and 6 feet wide) that lead toward the Wright Earthwork. This is one of them, looking toward the outside of the "Great Circle" itself.
Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Newark Earthworks - Octagon
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Nov 2007
Newark Earthworks - Octagon submitted by bat400 on 25th Nov 2007. This photo was taken from the observing platform that is set on the east side of the connecting "road" between the circle and octagon in the "Octagon" earthwork site. Looking southwest toward the circle. As you can see, the enclosures are far too large to get a good idea of the geometry without actually walking the site.
Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Fairmount
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2007
Fairmount submitted by bat400 on 3rd Dec 2007. Fairmount Mound. The Fairmount Presbyterian Church and cemetery were placed around this site by European settlers.
Photo - bat 400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Enon Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Dec 2007
Enon mound submitted by bat400 on 3rd Dec 2007. Enon Mound. The view from south of the mound.
Photo - bat400, 2 Nov 2007.
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Alligator Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2007
Alligator Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Dec 2007. Alligator Mound. What you cannot tell from satellite views and most photos of the site is that there would have been a clear view of the effigy from higher ground immediately to the west of the mound. In this photo you can just make out the irregular lines of the mound through the recently planted trees in the upscale neighborhood that surrounds the mound.
Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Upham
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2007
Upham submitted by bat400 on 7th Dec 2007. Upham Mound in Newark, Ohio.
Photo - bat400, 4 Nov 2007.
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Ferris Owen
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2007
Ferris Owen submitted by bat400 on 7th Dec 2007. Ferris Owen Mound in Newark, Ohio.
Photo - bat400, 4 Nov 2007.
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Highbanks Park Works
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2008
Highbanks Park Works submitted by bat400 on 6th Jan 2008. Highbanks Enclosure. Remains of an earthen embankment and ditch on the fourth side of a village site. The other three sides were protected by sharp drop offs. Photo- bat400 4 Nov 2007.
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Highbanks Mound II
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2008
Highbanks Mound II submitted by bat400 on 6th Jan 2008. A mound within Columbus Ohio's Highbanks Metropark. This one is the more southernly of the two. Photo - bat400, 4 Nov 2007.
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Highbanks Mound I
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2008
Highbanks Mound I submitted by bat400 on 6th Jan 2008. One of two Mounds within Columbus Ohio's Highbanks Metropark. This is the northern of the two. Photo - bat400 4 Nov 2007.
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Wright-Holder Works
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jan 2008
Wright-Holder Works submitted by bat400 on 6th Jan 2008. Wright Holder works. Of several earthen enclosures, only the large rectangular one may be glimpsed from the public road. Given the lay of the land and the site being under the plow, it is difficult to make out the earthen wall from ground level. The property is private, with no public parking area. Photo - bat400 4 Nov 2007.
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Cahokia - Powell Mound
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 1 Access 5
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Cahokia - Mound 66
Trip No.2 Entry No.10 Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2
Log Text: From aerial photos this is one of the larger mounds at Cahokia. And although it is not on an easily accessible footpath, it can be seen from Forest Blvd., south of the modern Cahokia park. It lies at the southern boundary of the city proper and is 430' by 170' (east-west by north-south) and 25-30 feet high.
In the early 1900's a raised road or causway could be seen extending north from this mound toward the central area of Cahokia. The causeway was more recently confirm by Lidar imaging.
The mound was excavated in the 1920's and a great unfilled trench through the mound can still be seen. This excavation was performed because it appeared that expansion by the nearby rail road was scheduled to completely level the mound. This did not occur.
The mound had been used for burials: both the ancient people of Cahokia and the more recent French colonists.
Moundville Archeological Park
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jul 2008
Moundville Archeological Park submitted by bat400 on 23rd Jul 2008. Moundville at sunset.
Photo by bat400, June 2008.
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