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Fewkes
Trip No.3 Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Fewkes submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Fewkes Site, Tennessee. Mound 2. Photo by bat400, July 2007.
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Log Text: Four visible mounds. They are believed to have been flat topped mounds for building sites, but they have been degraded over the years by plowing that only one is remotely of the classic four sided platform. The other three are rounded off and relatively low.
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Castalian Springs Mounds
Trip No.3 Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2006. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bledsoe's Lick Mound submitted by bat400 on 29th Jun 2006. The Mississippian platform mound at Castalian Springs, Sumner County, TN (formerly Bledsoe's Lick.)
The conical mound with a flattened top was built on the west end of a broad rectangular platform. The structure is much reduced by plowing over the years. However, the ground has been undisturbed for a number of years. The property is now owned and protected by the state.
Photo by bat400, June 2006.
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Log Text: I visited in 2006 while the Middle Tennessee University was conducting a dig, not of the mound itself, but of the footprint of several buildings which were visible from the traces of postholes and (to less evidence, walls.) Very interesting. Meet Dr. Smith, who was very gracious with his time and explanations.
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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Marsden Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2012
Marsden Mounds submitted by bat400 on 3rd Sep 2012. Mound A lies between the marker and Mounds B, C, and D, which are right at the edge of the woods seen in the background. Mound A is large in diameter, but so reduced in height that it is difficult to see at all.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Poverty Point
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2012
Poverty Point submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. The "Poverty Point Objects" (PPOs). These fired earthen balls and cubes are unique to the Poverty Point culture. These on display in the park museum are decorated, although many are plain. There is a lot of speculation on what purpose they served, but a general opinion is that they were heated used for earth oven cooking, the area lacks stones more generally used for similar purposes at other sites and called "fire cracked rock" (FCR).
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Poverty Point - Earthworks
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2012
Poverty Point - Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. A view from the top of Mound A of the semi-circular or octagon earthwork ridge area. The curve of a ridge can be seen in the different texture of the ground cover. The white structure is a "ghost dwelling" showing the rought footprint and speculated height of one of the dwellings that were built on the ridges.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Poverty Point - Mound A
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 4th Sep 2012
Poverty Point - Mound A submitted by bat400 on 4th Sep 2012. Mound A seen from the south east. The 'tail' of the bird is to the right. The highest point is across the wing span, on the 'bird's' back. There is a boardwalk that allows you to walk up onto the mound.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Bynum
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2012
Bynum submitted by bat400 on 6th Sep 2012. Bynum Mounds and Village site. There were originally six burial mounds (the smaller ones much eroded by the plow.) All six were fully excavated and the two largest mounds were reconstructed .
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Pharr Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 6th Sep 2012
Pharr submitted by bat400 on 6th Sep 2012. Shows only some of the many domed burial mounds in the Pharr complex.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Marietta Earthworks - Conus
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Conus submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. The Conus Mound and its enclosing ditch and embankment. This view is from the south side.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jan 2013
Marietta Earthworks - Quadranaou submitted by bat400 on 14th Jan 2013. The Quadranaou, a flat topped earthen pyramid with centered ramps on each of the four sides. The slope you see at the extreme right and left are the ramps, and not the pyramid itself.
Photo by bat400, October 2012.
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University of Chicago Institute
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jan 2013
University of Chicago Oriental Institute submitted by bat400 on 31st Jan 2013. The Assyrian Lamassu at the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago.
Gypsum (?) Khorsabad, entrance to the throne room Neo-Assyrian Period, ca. 721-705 B.C. OIM A7369
This 40 ton statue - one of two flanking the entrance to the throne room of King Sargon II. A protective spirit known as a lamassu, it is shown as a composite being with he head of a human, the body and ears of a bull, and the wings of a bird. When viewed from the side, the creature appears to be walking; w...
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Kituwah
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2013
Kituwah submitted by bat400 on 24th Feb 2013. Kituwah. This town site in North Carolina is marked today by the remains of this earthen mound, much reduced from its original size to only about 5 feet high.
photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Bandelier National Monument
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2013
Bandelier National Monument submitted by bat400 on 26th Feb 2013. A view of the main ruins sites on the floor of Frijoles Canyon. Tyounyi is to the left in tan colored stone. "Cavates" dug or enlarges in the cliff wall and the remains of a long line of buildings at the base of the cliff can be see along the cliff wall to the right and center.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Bandelier National Mounument - Tyuonyi
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2013
Bandelier National Mounument - Tyuonyi submitted by bat400 on 26th Feb 2013. Tyuonyi pueblo as seen from the ledges along the cliffside. Originally there were 400 rooms, most of which were used for storage.
Photo by bat400.
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Bandelier National Monument - Long House
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2013
Bandelier National Monument - Long House submitted by bat400 on 26th Feb 2013. Pictogram in Long House Pueblo, which used the cliffside ans the back wall of the rooms.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Bandelier National Monument - Alcove House
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 26th Feb 2013
Bandelier National Monument - Alcove House submitted by bat400 on 26th Feb 2013. Alcove House.
Photo by bat400, April 2012.
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Lake Koshkonong Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2013
Lake Koshkonong Mounds submitted by bat400 on 31st Mar 2013. One of the larger remaining mounds in this group, shaped like a turtle. However, this is just about impossible to tell from a photo, both because there is no way to see the overall shape from ground level, and because these mounds are not kept carefully trimmer of high vegetation or outlines with contrasting ground cover.
Photo by bat400, July 2010.
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Goodall Site
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th Apr 2014
Goodall Site submitted by bat400 on 7th Apr 2014. Goodall.
Photo by bat400, ca. 2010.
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