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Shiloh Indian Mounds
Date Added: 9th Apr 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Shiloh Indian Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 2nd Aug 2023. Burial mound at the Shiloh, Tennessee mound complex & village area. The complex is dated to AD 1200.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: The mound site is very compact and easily accessible along a National Park Service road or via a foot trail. Park at either the Shiloh Indian Mounds Visitor Kiosk or in a paved pullout area next to Mound F. The latter is the closest to the mound and plaza complex itself and most of the mounds are within a several hundred yard radius.
Alligator Mounds (Clarksdale)
Date Added: 9th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Alligator Mounds (Clarksdale) submitted by stonetracker on 8th Apr 2024. Mound B, this is the closest mound to the road. All mounds are on a private farm and closer access is only possible with permission.
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Log Text: Although there is no official parking pulloff, the road has enough shoulder to pull partially off it opposite Mound B. Mound B and C are clearly visible in a field behind a wire fence. Mound A is mostly blocked from view. Mounds D and E are in the middle of cultivated land and I was unable to definitely ID them.
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.
Batesville Mounds
Date Added: 7th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Batesville Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 26th Jul 2023. Burial Mound at Batesville, Mississippi. It is one of the sites on the state's mound trail. Photo credit Gregory L. Little, Ed.D.
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Log Text: Visited twice in April 2024. This site is in a well maintained park, funded by both the town and state. Excellent interpretation and a paved walkway that allows disabled access to Mounds A-C. Mound D and the habitation areas require a further walk on an unpaved woods trail. Plenty of parking.
Christmas Mound
Date Added: 7th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Christmas Mound submitted by AKFisher on 10th Aug 2023. Christmas Mound in Mississippi. It started as a midden mound in AD 400 and was enlarged to 10-feet in height in a small window of time. There are many similar mounds all over the southeast, most of which are unmarked. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Mound is as described about 200 yds east of the parking pulloff in a private cultivated area. Only remote viewing is possible.
Fort Hill Sharpening Stone
Date Added: 2nd Apr 2024
Site Type: Polissoir
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Fort Hill Sharpening Stone submitted by stonetracker on 1st Apr 2024. Sharpening stone
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Log Text: Site is maintained by the Cape Cod National Seashore unit of the NPS and accessible by foot trail from either Hemenway Rd or the Fort Hill area. The trail from Hemenway is paved and therefore disabled access is possible. Rock and markings in very good condition.
Carson Mounds
Date Added: 25th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Carson Mounds submitted by AKFisher on 5th Aug 2023. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the
Carson Mounds today.
Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: One of the most impressive Early Mississippian sites anywhere in the US, let alone MS. Outside of the Lake George (Holly Bluff) site, it is likely the largest Native American mound site in the state, covering over a mile of terrain that once hosted over 80 mounds, an earthen enclosure, and a large village site. 5 of the largest mounds are the only cultural features that remain visible today. Unfortunately most of them are on private property and can only be viewed legally from the road unless owner permission is obtained (or they are approached with caution and respect). Some are posted No Trespassing.
Only Mound B has an official parking pulloff. The rest can be accessed, but generally require parking in a private area with some short distance walking.
Alcorn Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 25th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Alcorn Cemetery Mound submitted by stonetracker on 11th Mar 2024. Alcorn Cemetery mound behind fenced enclosure. It appears to be a rectangular platform mound although the extent to which it has been modified and reshaped is not known.
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Log Text: Can park off road in a grassy pulloff area, at least in the winter. Cemetery is about a 100 yd walk.
Parkin
Date Added: 15th Mar 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Parkin submitted by Flickr on 20th Sep 2015. Museum at the Parkin Archaelogical State Park in Parkin Arkansas. They are excavating the remains of a Native American village which is believed to have been visited by Hernando De Soto in 1541. Image copyright: mdsilverhawke, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Well preserved Late Mississippian village and mound site with a nice museum. A paved trail provides good access to and interpretation of all cultural features at the site, including historic features. Appears to be fully accessible to disabled visitors.
Berry Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 15th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3
Berry Cemetery Mound submitted by stonetracker on 14th Mar 2024. The mound with historic cemetery in a cultivated field
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Log Text: There is no official parking for this site. On-street only. The mound is very visible about 100 yds from the road in a private farm field.
Barbee Mound
Date Added: 11th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Barbee Mound submitted by stonetracker on 11th Mar 2024. Wide angle photo of the mound which is 6-7 ft high. The cemetery is located on the south bank of Carter Bayou.
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Log Text: The single conical mound is walk-up accessible and well maintained. Park in the cemetery.
West Mounds
Date Added: 11th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
West Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 11th Mar 2024. Mound A with house on top. An obvious rectangular platform mound with ramps. Unclear how much the mound was modified by the owner.
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Log Text: Mounds A, B, and C are in reasonable shape and visible. There is no official parking pulloff or signage, but there are shoulders nearby where you can get at least partially off the road.
Mounds A and B face each other directly across the paved public road. Mound C is a few hundred yds south in a farm field near a derelict outbuilding. I parked in a grassy area near it. Mound D is not evident amongst the various farm buildings southeast of Mound A. But most experts have questioned whether it's a cultural feature.
Beaverdam Mounds
Date Added: 10th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Beaverdam Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 10th Mar 2024. Contour map of site. Note the absence of slope contours for Mound B just SW of A. It may have been plowed to surface level and no longer visible.
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Log Text: This site is within a mile of the Evansville Mound site. There is a parking pulloff about 500 ft south of Mound A, which lies in a cultivated private field bordering Beaverdam Lake. Visibility is unobstructed, but I was unable to spot the much-reduced Mound B to the south of it.
The usual interpretive signage was not present. It was either removed or stolen.
Johnson Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 9th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Johnson Cemetery Mound submitted by AKFisher on 10th Aug 2023. Obscure Mounds: Johnson Cemetery Mound, Mississippi. Dated to AD 1300.
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 within 150 ft of the mound. Mound is in good condition and there is at least one grave visible in the surface from the Afro American cemetery. Interpretive sign did not fare as well. The post is bent at an acute angle, obviously hit or vandalized by someone.
Cheatham Mound
Date Added: 9th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024
Cheatham Mound submitted by stonetracker on 9th Mar 2024. A cemetery is as close as I could park to this mound. The mound is maybe a 1/2 mile away on a large farm tract.
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Log Text: Very little information out there, but this is listed as a known single-mound Walls phase site. The only reasonable, safe parking was about 1/2 mile west of the site in a nearby cemetery. The mound appears to be fairly intact but impossible to confirm from this distance.
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.
Chucalissa Prehistoric Indian Village
Date Added: 8th Mar 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chucalissa Prehistoric Indian Village submitted by Dodomad on 17th Aug 2023. C.H. Nash Museum employee Kiran Riar demonstrates how to throw a spear with an atlatl at Chucalissa.
Image copyright: ilovememphis (Memphis CVB), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Site is as described including the Nash Museum. Some additional notes:
* The temple mound appears to be partially reconstructed, not unusual for mound builder sites. In particular, a tan clay facing has been applied to the front of the mound. It is thought that this is the way it appeared in late Mississippian times.
* There is another smaller mound adjacent to the temple mound. As far as I can tell, this is the only other extant mound in the park.
* There is a nice replica of a village house behind the temple mound.
* There is also a replica of a segment of palisade enclosure, using wattle and daub construction.
* Nature trails behind the temple mound traverse borrow pits and archeological excavation trenches of habitation sites.
Edgefield 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 4 Access 5
Edgefield Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 8th Mar 2024. Map on other side of sign
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Log Text: Description of the site is accurate. Mound A is the only one of the three that is easily accessible - right next to the paved road, a cemetery, and the interpretive sign in a pullout area. A vacant church is located 100 yds to the west. Mounds B and C are well northwest of Mound A and much closer to a levee that was built next to what is now a tributary or oxbow of the Mississippi R. Both are on posted private land in wooded areas that block easy viewing. I was unable to locate Mound B, but may have seen Mound C from a considerable distance.
Chickasaw Heritage Park
Date Added: 7th Mar 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Chickasaw Heritage Park submitted by AKFisher on 14th Aug 2023. This is a really well formed platform mound, one of two at the site, in downtown Memphis, Tennessee next to the Mississippi River. It is thought by some to be the site where Hernando de Soto first saw the Mississippi River. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Site remains as described. The only change I noticed was the tunnel leading to the Civil War magazine in the mound next to the river has been bricked up and blocked.
New Castle Complex
Date Added: 4th Dec 2023
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
New Castle Complex submitted by AKFisher on 28th Aug 2023. 1937 survey of the New Castle Earthworks and mounds at New Castle, Indiana. There were 9 circular or C-shaped earthworks that had outer earthen walls with inner moats. There were 4 mounds and an odd ovoid earthwork enclosure with an inner moat with three large mounds inside the enclosure. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Log Text: Parking is in a lot on Route 103 south of the Little Blue River just across from the old paved hospital access road, now abandoned and gated, but open to hiking. The grounds comprising the complex are now owned by the Wilbur Wright Fish and Wildlife Area. The old paved hospital road leads to the section containing sites 1-4 and there is a side trail presumably leading south and east to what's left of the remaining sites which I did not try to explore.
In general, anything off of the hospital access road was extremely overgrown in October 2023. I was unable to find sites 2-4, and may only have found a part of the mound at site 1. The only time to find anything here may be in winter when the leaves are off the trees as there are no obvious trails and bushwhacking is required.