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Nabers Mound Cemetery Site
Date Added: 16th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nabers Mound Cemetery Site submitted by AKFisher on 25th Aug 2023. Obscure Mounds: "Nabors Mound Cemetery Mound" next to a golf course in Amory, Mississippi. Dated to AD 100.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: A well-preserved Middle Woodland mound that was later used as a 19th to 20th century cemetery, no doubt benefiting its good condition. The property was acquired by the Archaeological Conservancy recently and it abuts a golf course development.
It's in a residential subdivision but on-street parking is not a problem and you can walk right up the mound. The mound is maybe 100 ft from the road, so the mobility-impaired can easily view it from a vehicle.
Bear Creek
Date Added: 19th Dec 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Bear Creek submitted by Flickr on 6th Jan 2019. Kristen for scale, Bear Creek mound Image copyright: alfred.crabtree (Alfred Crabtree), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: A very small Mississippian mound and village site on the Natchez Trace, right over the MS/AL line in MS.
There is a large parking area with some limited interpretation. There is only a single rectangular platform mound about 200 ft from the lot. For mobility-impaired visitors, the mound and village area can be easily seen from the parking area.
Pharr Mounds
Date Added: 20th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Pharr submitted by bat400 on 6th Sep 2012. Panorama of all the mounds visible from the ridge of the Natchez Trace, overlooking the site.
Photo by bat400, October 2011.
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Log Text: This is a large Middle Woodland site of 8 conical or rounded mounds spread out over a 80-90 acre field. It is located at milepost 286 of the Natchez Trace in MS, on the north bound side of the highway. The mounds today range in height from 2 to 18 ft. Generally speaking, the tallest mounds are closest to the road. Four mounds were either partially or fully excavated in the 1960s by the NPS.
There is a large car park overlooking the site, complete with interpretation and rest rooms. Although 4-5 mounds can be seen from the lot, they are a considerable distance away so binoculars are helpful. Trails interconnect many of the mounds, but there is a fair amount of walking involved. A circuit of Mounds A-D, the four closest, was just under a mile including the return trip to the parking area. I did not visit the others.
Pinson Mounds - Mound 28
Date Added: 22nd Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pinson Mounds - Mound 28 submitted by symbionspacesuit on 14th Feb 2010. Mound 28
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Log Text: Part of the Eastern Section of Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park in Pinson TN. The state park hosts what is likely the largest Middle Woodland mound site in the US. An extensive trail system in the Eastern Section links Mounds 28, 29, 30 and the Eastern Citadel.
The easiest access point for this trail system is in the Group Lodge Area, which hosts a large parking lot with a trailhead and restroom facilities. The Group Lodge Area is on the left about 0.4 miles beyond the state park entrance gate. The Outer Loop trail heads east from there to Mound 28 and the other Eastern Section features.
Pinson Mounds - Mound 29
Date Added: 26th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Pinson Mounds - Mound 29 submitted by stonetracker on 25th Dec 2024. Mound 29 from the SE side. The eastern edge of the circular enclosure is on the right side of the photo behind the tree line.
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Log Text: A Middle Woodland rectangular platform mound in decent shape.
To get there, be prepared for a long-ish but mostly flat walk (from the Group Lodge parking area, it is about 1.5 miles round trip). First, see the visitor logs for trail access to Mound 28 and from there to the north wall of the Eastern Citadel. Once at the northern side of the enclosure, follow the wall about 300 ft east to an obvious gap with trail signage. Follow that trail south for 100-200 yds. Mound 29 will be directly ahead and obvious.
Pinson Mounds - Twin Mounds
Date Added: 29th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pinson Mounds - Twin Mounds submitted by davidmorgan on 30th Aug 2017. The Pinson Twin Mounds.
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Log Text: From archaeological standpoint, an important twin burial mound site at Pinson in the Western Section.
To get there, park at the lot for Ozier Mound (see that visitor log for directions). Walk west a short distance to the south side of Ozier where there is a trail junction. Take that trail approximately 300 yards south through a field to Twin Mounds, which lie at the edge of the woods.
Windsor Mounds
Date Added: 1st Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Windsor Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 19th Nov 2023. Mound A, the tallest. Site is very overgrown except in winter, so I had to approach closer than usual to get the shot. However it is only steps away from the parking area.
There are three other smaller mounds, all of them a hike, which I'll try on the next visit.
There was evidence uncovered of Mississippian occupation and artifacts on both Mounds A and B, plus later modern damage due to house and barn construction in the late 1700s. .
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Log Text: Returned to this site and definitively located Mounds B and C (see photos and videos). Mound D is nearly indistinct in a large mowed field but fairly sure I found it based on earlier survey maps. D is located next to a field road several 100 yds south and east of Mound A. C is another 100-200 yds east of D, and is easily identified by its historic cemetery. Both are easy flat walks.
Mound B is a 100-200 yd bushwhack northeast of Mound A and north of Rodney Rd. Although there is no trail, it is an easy open walk in low vegetation seasons.
Pinson Mounds - Eastern Citadel
Date Added: 23rd Dec 2024
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Pinson Mounds - Eastern Citadel submitted by symbionspacesuit on 3rd Mar 2010. William Myer's map of the Eastern Citadel.
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Log Text: For parking and trailhead access, see Pinson Mounds - Mound 28.
This is a large (semi) circular earthen enclosure in the Eastern Section of Pinson. It surrounds Mound 29, and Mound 30 lies just outside of and SE of the enclosure. The diameter of the semi-circular enclosure is 366 m and it encompasses approximately 6 square km. The northern and western sides are largely intact, whereas the eastern and southern parts are eroded and fragmented.
To get to the northern section of the enclosure from Mound 28, follow the Outer Loop trail south for about 0.15 mile to a side trail on the left. The side trail leads to an obvious embankment and gap in about 500 ft.
Pinson Mounds - Mound 30
Date Added: 24th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Pinson Mounds - Mound 30 submitted by symbionspacesuit on 3rd Mar 2010. Mound 30 from the north.
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Log Text: This is classified as Middle Woodland rectangular platform mound lying just to the SE and outside of the Eastern Circular Enclosure. However, you would never know, as it has suffered much erosion over the centuries.
To get there, be prepared for a long-ish but mostly flat walk (from the Group Lodge parking area, it is about 1.6 miles round trip). First, see the visitor logs for trail access to Mound 28 and from there to the north wall of the Eastern Citadel. Once at the northern side of the enclosure, follow the wall about 300 ft east to an obvious gap with trail signage. Follow that trail into the enclosure south past Mound 29. Here the enclosure embankment is nearly flat and Mound 30 is visible about 300-400 ft SE of Mound 29.
Pinson Mounds - Ozier Mound
Date Added: 26th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pinson Mounds - Ozier Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit on 14th Feb 2010. Ozier (Mound 5)
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Log Text: Ozier Mound (Mound 5) is one of several sites in the Western Section of the park. It is a rectangular platform mound, second in height only to Sauls' Mound.
Getting there is a bit obscure due to lack of signage. The easiest way is from Route 197 outside the park. Follow Route 197 east and look for the Pinson Reforestation Complex sign, which is about a mile west of the park entrance. Take a right and head south about a half mile to a dirt parking lot. There is a kiosk here with a trailhead that leads west in 100-200 yards to a very large, obvious Mound.
If you are within the park, follow the one way loop road nearly to the park exit. About 100 yds before the exit, take the dirt road on the left (unsigned and easy to miss) and follow it back about a mile south and west past a maintenance area to the dirt parking lot and trail head referenced above.
Refuge Mounds
Date Added: 3rd Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Refuge Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 2nd Mar 2025. The single remaining mound at Refuge, with a house on top.
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Log Text: A much-studied Mississippian period mound site, but not on the official Mississippi Mound Trail. A house was built on the one remaining rectangular platform mound so the site is private. Unfortunately parking safely along busy Rte 454 is a challenge as there are no good pulloffs and a narrow shoulder. I found a somewhat wider section, parked there, and walked 100 yds to a point opposite the site for photos. The mound is 100-200 yds south of the modern road and close to the Mississippi River.
Mayersville Mounds
Date Added: 4th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2
Mayersville Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 4th Mar 2025. Topo of the mound site. The five remaining mounds are all within the blue rectangle. The highest I believe is Mound A, although I have yet to see a map with mound IDs labeled.
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Log Text: This site, a major Mississippian mound complex, was a disappointment due to access problems. It's all private roads to my knowledge, set well back from the main highway, and a number of the mounds are tree covered and obscured from a distance. The upshot is I didn't have time to knock on doors and get permission so maybe next time?
I did get a poor photo of what I think is the largest Mound A from the cemetery of a nearby church on State Route 1, which I'll post for what it's worth. The location coordinates given in the general description are for the same mound.
Foster Mounds
Date Added: 4th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Foster Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 5th Aug 2023.
Foster Mounds in Mississippi. The largest platform mound at the site has a late 1800s home on its summit. The mound was lowered and altered to accommodate the house. Excavation of a second mound at the site showed that the site was a village area in 500 BC.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: The site is largely as described and on private property in a residential area. I was lucky enough to bump into the landowner who said I could walk down his driveway to get a closer look at Mound A with his house on it. The mound is in very good condition. There is a flat area south of Mound A that obviously was part of the plaza.
Mound B is about a 200 yd walk south of and downhill from Mound A on the same side of Foster Mound Rd. It is fenced off but you can get within 100 yds of it. It is up on a bluff that borders St Catherine Creek and has suffered some erosion over the years. It is unclear at this point what the original shape of the mound was.
As for parking, there is no easy pulloff at Mound A, so I just parked in the Volunteer Fire Dept lot 100 yds north of Mound A and walked from there.
DePrato Mounds
Date Added: 5th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3
DePrato Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 5th Aug 2023.
Deprato Mounds in Louisiana. There are 5 barely distinguishable mounds there as so much sediment from flooding has covered them. It was the center of a large village established around AD 600.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Like many Louisiana mound sites, this site is on private land near a residential tract. It is just north of busy US Highway 84. There is no off-road parking area, so you must park on the shoulder of the highway and view it from there. It originally consisted of five mounds, but only three are barely discernable due to centuries of river flooding and sediment buildup. One was destroyed for highway construction and a house was built on the other, leveling it in the process. It is on the Louisiana Ancient Mounds Trail, so the state erected an interpretive sign near the site.
Frogmore Mound
Date Added: 5th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Frogmore Mound submitted by Andy B on 1st Nov 2019. Frogmore Mound (Frogmore, Louisiana) Frogmore, Louisiana is located between Ferriday and Jonesville in western Concordia Parish. It is noteworthy as the site of a series of ancient Native American earthworks (dating to 700-1200 AD) and the Frogmore Plantation, which dates to 1843. Both sites, along with the nearby historic Piazza Cotton Gin, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Image copyright: courthouselover, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Like DePrato, Frogmore is on private property fronting Route 84, but in this case there is a convenient side street (Frogmore Plantation Rd) with a reasonable shoulder leading to a residential subdivision. I was able to pull slightly off the side street and park 100 ft from the mound.
Elkhorn Plantation Mound
Date Added: 6th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Elkhorn Plantation Mound submitted by AKFisher on 3rd Aug 2023.
The Elkhorn Plantation Mound on the official Louisiana Ancient Mound Trail. It was constructed in 450 AD and inhabited until around AD 1100. The area was discovered with pottery strewn around everywhere indicating a large habitation area. The erosion by farming is evident.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Elkhorn, a single mound site on private land, is about a mile or so north of Frogmore Mound on Dunbarton Rd (Route 566). The mound is in a vast cultivated field about 100 ft east of the road. There are no shoulders or designated pulloffs, so I parked on a nearby field road and walked a short distance to the mound from there. In late winter, nothing is planted yet and the place was deserted, so there was little risk of being "caught." ;-)
Lessley Mound
Date Added: 6th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Lessley Mound submitted by stonetracker on 7th Mar 2025. The mound. Zoom in to the top to see the iron fence around the family cemetery.
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Log Text: This mound is on the north side of MS Route 24, and right next to the roadway and a convenient parking pulloff at the interpretive sign. So it is possible to view it at close range without leaving the vehicle. However an old barbed wire fence prevents entry into a field on the other side of the mound. It is easily crossed but I respected the private property restrictions of the landowner.
Smith Creek Mounds
Date Added: 7th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Frogmore Mound submitted by AKFisher on 1st Aug 2023. The site of a series of ancient Native American earthworks (dating to 700-1200 AD)
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: This was somewhat disappointing for what is a pretty interesting mound complex. All of the mounds are on private property although you can get very close to Mound A as it's literally right next to the highway. There's not much of a shoulder but you can pull mostly off the road next to that mound. The other two mounds are across the road on a property filled with vehicles and a home. I was greeted by a pack of barking dogs when I pulled in but apparently the owner brought them inside and they calmed down enough that I could walk around a bit.
All of the mounds are completely overgrown and hard to photograph, even in late winter. The location coordinates given for Mound A are in fact correct, but Google Streetview won't show much because of overgrowth. I tried to capture an image of it myself with mixed results. Mound B is a little clearer, but only remote viewing is possible unless you get permission. Mound C is much reduced by erosion and too far away to get a decent image.
Insley Mounds
Date Added: 8th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Insley Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 9th Aug 2023.
Archaeological reconstruction of the Insley Mounds in Louisiana from the mound encyclopedia.
Image courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: This site is spread out over a small residential area on Frankie Loftin Rd, a narrow rural roadway. Two mounds, B and C, are right next to the road and very close to Bayou Macon. There is no real parking area, but you can get mostly off the road near what looks like an abandoned house next to Mound C and near the interpretive sign. Mound B is a 100 yd walk north of the sign and surrounded by a wooden fence. Mound D is 200 yds south of the sign and about 200 yds west of the road in a private yard. It can only be viewed remotely. The mound in Dr. Little's photo is Mound D.
Most of the remaining mounds of the original 13 mound complex were leveled by cultivation. Supposedly there are 3 other small mounds to the east of the road, but I had no time to look for them and have no information on their whereabouts. They are almost certainly on private land.
Note: I was unable to positively locate Mound A.
Tendal Mound
Date Added: 9th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Tendal Mound submitted by bat400 on 29th Aug 2012. Tendal Mound taken from the east side, showing how the modern house was built in the approximate center of this low platform mound.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2011.
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Log Text: Tendal is a single rectangular platform mound site, located 50-100 ft north of US Route 80 and just west of the Tensas River. A currently occupied house was built on top of the mound and therefore the site is private. However you can park within 100 ft of it, at the corner of US Route 80 and Tendal Rd in the front lot of a currently unused commercial building. An interpretive sign is in the front yard of the residence.