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Wickliffe Mounds
Date Added: 6th May 2011
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Wickliffe Mounds submitted by Flickr on 2nd Sep 2015. Wickliffe Mounds Image copyright: Fort Massac DAR (Fort Massac DAR), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Large and steady rainfall this spring has flooded two of the three excavation areas normally open to the public. The largest excavation (over what was a long loaf shaped burial mound covering a village surface) is still open, as it the small visitor center.
The site admission fee has been reduced during this period. The friendly staff are still ready to answer your questions.
During the last week of April the only route into the village of Wickliffe is Kentucky State Road 60. The other major routes were either flooded or blocked by a mudslide.
Tippett Mound
Date Added: 12th Dec 2012
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Log Text: I hiked to this mound from the north entrance of the Taft Reserve. There is a pictorial trail map on a display in a parking area that clearly identifies the mound. The most direct routes appears to be on a trail that starts as a rough, grassy lane from the north east corner of the property, along a fence line, but through woods. Basically stay to the left at all junctions until you find a post marked "9", then turn right. You will very quickly leave the woods and enter a meadow, only some of which is kept mowed. The mound is immediately obvious and straight ahead. You can approach the tree covered mound in order to see the contour clearly, but in late June, this was by make a path through chest high grass, wildflowers and bramble.
Tarlton Cross
Date Added: 27th Jun 2011
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Tarlton Cross submitted by mobial on 19th Mar 2014. Tarlton Cross Panoramic image of the cross - taken June 19, 2012 Panorama created from iPhone photos Image copyright: Mobial (Mike Osswald), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Aztalan State Park
Date Added: 31st Mar 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2010. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Aztalan State Park submitted by bat400 on 31st Mar 2013. The largest mound at Aztalan is a "stepped" pyramidal structure in the southwest corner of the stockade surround.
This is a partial reconstruction of the site as found in the early 1800's. By the 1920's there had been substantial plowing of the site and significant damage by "pot hunters" and those simply "quarrying" the mounds for fill dirt and the remains of burnt wattle and daub from the original stockade.
Photo by bat400, July 2010.
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Log Text: A Cahokia in miniature. Site interpretation is quite good considering that the park is not monitored for much of its opening times (basically dawn to dusk, daily.) At the parking area, a brief guide to the site is available at an honesty box. Placards around the site describe the ruins and reconstructions visible, as well as archaeological findings.
When I visited (late in the day on a Sunday) the small museum was unmanned.
Portsmouth Earthworks
Date Added: 9th Mar 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Portsmouth Works submitted by durhamnature on 21st Feb 2013. Old plan of the works, from "Prehistoric America" via archive.org
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Tremper
Entry No.1 Date Added: 30th Sep 2024
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tremper submitted by durhamnature on 26th Jan 2013. Old drawing from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org
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Log Text: Tremper Mound is now open to the public with outdoor museum quality kiosks explaining the site's importance both as a natural and cultural site. The site was purchased by the Arc of Appalachia organization over several years by buying separate parcels. Fences around and over the mound and enclosure itself have been removed. The nearby Pond Creek trail is easily accessible.
Study of the site after purchase revealed that a small portion of the enclosure surrounding the mound still exists (much reduced in height) and mowing of vegetation highlights both the extend of the mound and enclosure.
Visitors may visit during daylight hours with parking in a graveled lot off of State Road 73 on the east side of the site.
Circleville
Date Added: 9th Mar 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Circleville submitted by bat400 on 21st Jan 2013. Local historian Wallace Higgins suspects that the slight rise on the south side of Franklin Street may be the remnant of the square earthwork.
Photo by bat400, August 2011.
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Beattie Park Mound Group
Date Added: 5th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Dec 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Beattie Park Mound Group submitted by bat400 on 5th May 2015. Linear Shaped Mound in the Beattie Park Mound Group. Photo taken in November 2014 at dusk.
Photo by bat400.
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Log Text: Pleasant small city park along the Rock River is the location of these mounds, one a turtle effigy. Signage describes the mounds and historic information on how they were preserved. Parking nearby
Indiana State Museum
Date Added: 21st Aug 2015
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2014. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Indiana State Museum submitted by bat400 on 22nd Aug 2015. Bird Stones. Most are two to five inches long. They are relatively rare artifacts from the Archaic period and generally found in the eastern half of North America.
Indiana State Museum. Photo by bat400 ca. 2013.
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Log Text: Not an anthropology museum per se, and fairly pricey if your only interest are the galleries on the first people who lived in this region between the last Ice Age and European-contact. However, if you were flying into Indianapolis to visit the area, the collection would be a good introduction prior to visiting sites like Angel Mounds, Mounds State Park and particularly, other smaller locations without on site information.
Other galleries are more spectacular, including the collection of early marine life forms preserved in the extensive limestone deposits of Indiana.
Cahokia
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Monk's Mound taken from the SE.
bat 400. 23 June 2007.
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Log Text: A huge, sprawling site that gives you more and more if you spend some time at both the museum and walking the huge expanse. I've visited many times starting in the mid 1990's. The earthen mounds are so large and so many in number that it's easy to become overwhelmed and a bit numb ("... oh, there's another mound ...")
Walking around the site and climbing to the top of the largest earthwork in the US, Monk's Mound, gives you an idea of the size of the site. This is a truncated pyramid with several terraces. The footprint is larger than that of the stone pyramids of Giza.
Cahokia - Kunnemann Group
Date Added: 25th Aug 2017
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3
Cahokia - Kunnemann Group submitted by durhamnature on 3rd Mar 2013. Excavation of Kunnemann Mound, one of 6-11, from "Cahokia Mounds" via archive.org
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Horseshoe Lake Mound
Date Added: 25th Aug 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 20th Aug 2017. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3
Horseshoe Lake Mound submitted by bat400 on 7th Sep 2017. The wooded area may indicate the remnant of the platform mound at this village site.
Photo by bat400, 20Aug2017.
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Cahokia - Mound 5.
Trip No.2 Entry No.12 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cahokia - Mound 5 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 5 appears in the background. I am standing next to the stockade reconstruction. An Earthwatch dig was going on in a trench across the path of the stockade, although no one was working that day.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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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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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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Dickson Mounds
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Dickson Mounds submitted by bat400 on 31st Jan 2013. Museum at Dickson Mounds, Illinois.
Photographer: MattHucke, 2008.
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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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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