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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.
Ingomar Mounds
Date Added: 8th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ingomar Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 28th Jul 2023.
Ingomar Mound in Mississippi. It was a massive mound complex surrounded by an earthwork & palisade. This platform mound is all that remains today.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Most of this Middle Woodland site, once comprising 13 mounds and a palisade, was destroyed by cultivation. Was only able to find Mound 1 (a small burial mound only visible as a slight rise) and Mound 14 (a large rectangular platform mound in good condition).
All publicly accessible with parking and some interpretation. Mound 14 is about 1000 ft away on a mown footpath. Mound 1 is off to the left on the way to 14.
Hovenweep - Unit Type House
Date Added: 14th May 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hovenweep - Unit Type House submitted by stonetracker on 13th May 2025. A remote view of Unit Type House from Stronghold House
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Log Text: I viewed this site at 200-300 yds away from Stronghold House. Someday I'll return to visit this and the other structures in the Square Tower Group more closely. My understanding is that you can get a much closer view of Unit Type House from the trail that circles the canyon.
Hovenweep - Stronghold House
Date Added: 13th May 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hovenweep - Stronghold House submitted by jeffrep on 9th Nov 2012. Hovenweep. Remains of Stronghold House.
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Log Text: Only had time to see Stronghold House and its tower, plus a nearby ruin. Everything else in the Square Tower Group was remote viewing from the edge of Little Ruin Canyon, only due to my time constraints.
Access to Stronghold House is via a handicapped accessible paved trail about 300 yds from the visitor center.
Hovenweep - Settlement
Date Added: 12th May 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hovenweep - Hovenweep Castle submitted by jeffrep on 9th Nov 2012. Hovenweep Castle.
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Log Text: Only was able to visit Stronghold House and another ruin nearby. The rest were remote viewing only. See Hovenweep - Stronghold House for more details.
Horse Rock Art Panels
Date Added: 15th May 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Horse Rock Art Panels submitted by stonetracker on 15th May 2025. The main rock art panel is on the boulder at photo center. The corral is out of view to the right.
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Log Text: The main rock art panel is just 100-200 ft north of Route 162 about 0.2 miles east of Bluff. Parking is in a dirt lot next to a corral and a fenced utility building. For the mobility impaired, the panel is pretty visible with the naked eye from a vehicle if you park as far north as you can get and scan the central boulder.
I've been told there are more panels of a single horse and multiple animals behind the utility building fence and higher up the cliff slope.
Hopewell Mound Group
Date Added: 9th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Mound Group submitted by stonetracker on 5th Feb 2023. Interpretation for the largest known Hopewell burial mound ever built (Mound 25). It actually started as three mounds which were soon conjoined into one as burials and fill were added.
A floor plan from a 1920s excavation at the base of the mound shows fire pits, basins, post holes, and graves.
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Log Text: Intent of this trip was to see what was left of the square earthwork (nothing) and the mounds within the much larger enclosure (only a few slight rises above the field now). This site was not reconstructed, so what you see is the result of ~ 2000 yrs of erosion, plowing, etc.
Hopewell Mound Group
Date Added: 5th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Mound Group submitted by stonetracker on 5th Feb 2023. Interpretation for the largest known Hopewell burial mound ever built (Mound 25). It actually started as three mounds which were soon conjoined into one as burials and fill were added.
A floor plan from a 1920s excavation at the base of the mound shows fire pits, basins, post holes, and graves.
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Log Text: Found the extant wall and ditch segments, in fairly good shape.
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 29th Jan 2023
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site submitted by bat400 on 27th May 2006. Hopewell Culture NHP, Mound City Group.
Inside the main enclosure, this is a view looking toward the west. The large mound farthest back is the "Central Mound," the largest of the group. Closer is an elliptical mound, and a smaller conical mound is closest.
* The "Central Mound" was erected over the remains of two timber buildings with 13 cremated burials. Artifacts found included falcon effigies cut from copper sheets and fragments of human skull that had been cut and drilled (perhaps ...
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Log Text: Site is as described in the overview and comments. A mostly faithful reconstructed site, due to damage from previous excavations and military or agricultural use of property. Many Hopewell mound and earthworks sites have suffered from similar modern activities. Some have been at least partially rebuilt.
Hollywood Mounds
Date Added: 8th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Hollywood Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 8th Mar 2024. Mound A from 1000 ft away. As close as I could get as it's private property.
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Log Text: Mound A, the largest, and three much smaller boundary mounds to the north of it are all located in a wooded area on private farm property several 100 yds north of the pullout area on the paved rd. This is as close as you can get (legally). All remaining boundary mounds and the three mounds to the east of Mound A were destroyed long ago. I could see Mound A easily but the three boundary mounds to the north of it were blocked from view.
This is on the Mississippi Mound Trail but the interpretive signage is missing, either stolen or vandalized.
Hodgen's Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 25th Nov 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hodgen's Cemetery Mound submitted by AKFisher on 20th Oct 2023. Hodgen's Cemetery Mound in Tiltonsville, Ohio. It is an Adena burial mound generally dated to 500 BC-AD 500. In the mid-1800s locals started using the mound as a cemetery, which saved the mound from excavations. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Hillside Haven Mound
Date Added: 22nd Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hillside Haven Mound submitted by stonetracker on 22nd Feb 2023. Mound now much reduced in height, due to excavation and erosion.
Photo is courtesy of Wikipedia Creative Commons.
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Haynes Bluff Mounds
Date Added: 8th Nov 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Haynes Bluff Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 3rd Aug 2023.
Haynes Bluff mounds marker and mound.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Mound A is right next to a road pulloff near a large pulp and paper facility. Mound C, at the junction of a railroad line and the same road, has been damaged by the tracks which cut partially through it. It is about 500 ft south of Mound A. The two remaining mounds are gone.
Hawkins Preserve Pueblo Ruins
Date Added: 9th May 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Hawkins Preserve Pueblo Ruins submitted by stonetracker on 9th May 2025. Some of the room blocks in the Hawkins Preserve Ruins, built on a rectangular floor plan. My guess is this is a unit pueblo for an extended family and not a so-called Great House. It's unclear whether the rooms were made of jacal (wattle-and-daub construction) on a stone foundation or 100% masonry and mortar. Judging by the sandstone block remains littering the ground, I would guess the latter.
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Log Text: An Ancestral Pueblo site at least partially excavated, consisting of a few room blocks, a midden, and two mostly backfilled kivas. Other archaeological sites exist at the preserve, but as far as I know this is the only one that is protected and open to the public.
Parking and the main trailhead is located in a paved lot at 1490 S Cedar St in Cortez CO. Take the Mesa View Trail west about 0.3 miles to Ruins Road trail. The ruins are another 0.3 miles south down this trail.
Hamilton Mounds
Date Added: 18th 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
Hamilton Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 17th Feb 2023. Closer view of one of the Hamilton Mounds. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/hamilton-mound/ Sponsor: University of Alabama
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Log Text: A Mississippian mound site in Hamilton AL. Parking is in a small paved lot on Old Indian Mound Rd at the corner of a cultivated field about 800 ft east of US Hwy 278. There is an interpretive sign in the parking area.
The mounds are accessible via a mostly paved trail proceeding north and east about 1/2 mile around the field perimeter to the three mounds which are adjacent to the Buttahatchee River. The mounds can also be viewed via a good pair of binoculars from the lot.
Gulf State Park Shell and Sand Mounds
Date Added: 18th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gulf State Park Shell and Sand Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 17th Feb 2023. Another shell mound.
Source courtesy of Greg Little author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Grand Menhir Brisé
Date Added: 17th Nov 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Grand Menhir Brisé submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Grand Menhir Brisé, Locmariaquer.
A megalithic tragedy.
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Log Text: The 4 broken sections of this massive menhir are lying on the ground very close to the Table des Marchands cairn. Access is via a short walking trail from the visitor's center (paid admission). The presumed socket holes of the 19 standing stones are laid out in a line of discrete gravel patches pointing towards the Er -Grah tumulus.
Grace Mounds
Date Added: 4th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Oct 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Grace Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 4th Feb 2023. Mound B...about half of Mound A's height.
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Log Text: Although the mounds are on private property, you can park within 100 ft of Mound A and a few hundred feet of Mound B in a pulloff area next to a historic marker with good visibility.
Governor Nelson State Park Effigy Mounds
Date Added: 5th Aug 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 3
Governor Nelson State Park Effigy Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 2nd Aug 2024. One of the conical mounds right on the Woodland Trail. I was able to locate 3 of them.
Unfortunately none of the mounds is well maintained and large trees have been allowed to grow on some of them. Invasive plants will likely overwhelm the rest without a change in policy. In fairness, the park has a history of vandalism, including stolen signs and broken fencing, which makes preservation challenging.
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Log Text: This Late Woodland site is in a state park on the west shore of Lake Mendota near Madison WI. Parking and trail access at the south entrance near Borchers Beach Rd. There are two sites. The conical mounds are 1000 ft north of parking on the Woodland Trail. The large panther effigy is maybe 100 yds north of the conicals.
At least some of the conicals are visible but being rapidly consumed by invasive plants. The panther mound is completely overgrown in summer and I wasn't able to see much. Maybe in fall or winter? There was another restored panther at Camp Wakanda but I was unable to find it.
Glass Mounds (Mississippi)
Date Added: 16th Nov 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Glass Mounds (Tennessee) submitted by AKFisher on 9th Aug 2023. One of the two mounds at the Glass Mounds site near Nashville, Tennessee. They were made around AD 200.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: There is a parking pulloff on US Route 61 with site interpretation. However, the mounds are not walking-accessible from Route 61 and two of them (A and D) can only be viewed at a long distance from that highway (the remaining mounds were destroyed some time ago). It may be possible to see the same mounds at much closer range via back roads and a rail line, but I did not investigate.