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Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer)
Date Added: 20th Nov 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pierres Plates (Locmariaquer) submitted by ermine on 27th Jun 2004. Les Pierres Plates
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Log Text: This is an allee coudee (angled passage grave) with a number of unique decorated stones. It sits on a bluff overlooking the sea, which becomes an extensive shellfish flat when the tide goes out.
Sadly, nothing much has changed regarding interior access. A low rope and sign discourage interior access to the passage and chamber, although they don't outright forbid it. Moreover, this is a very popular beach and there are always people milling around even during the off season. Had there been less "people presence", I might have been tempted to sneak inside, but I behaved myself.
Parking is at a beach lot maybe 200-300 yds away. A trail leads from there to the bluff edge, and it is a short walk to the right to the site.
Pikes Peak State Park Effigy Mounds
Date Added: 1st Aug 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pikes Peak State Park Effigy Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 31st Jul 2024. Closeup of the river confluence. The flat ridge to the right is the location of the Sentinel Ridge effigy mounds in Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin.
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Log Text: There are 5-6 clusters of effigy mounds scattered on ridges throughout the park.
Two of them are relatively short hikes from the main south entrance parking lot: Hickory Ridge (via Hickory Ridge Trail) and Deer Ridge (behind the campground or via the southern part of the Bridal Veil Trail). Additionally a bear mound and small conical are visible about 200 yds north of the park concession booth via a paved walkway. These are the only ones I was able to visit on this trip as the others are a longer hike.
Most of the mounds in the park are linear or conical. Unfortunately there is no official printed map showing mound locations. However, you can get a copy of a hand-marked map from the visitor center at Effigy Mounds NM.
Piketon Mounds
Date Added: 25th Jan 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta on 29th Aug 2010. A view of the large mound, surmounted by a modern standing stone, otherwise known as a grave marker. No doubt it was thought to be an honour among later European-descended arrivals to be buried on the highest of the Indian mounds.
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Log Text: Was able to locate what I believe are the 4 main mounds in the cemetery proper. The graded way is long gone as far as I can tell. See photos.
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 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 - 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 - Other Sites
Date Added: 19th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Pinson Mounds - Other Sites submitted by stonetracker on 24th Apr 2024. Mound 15 interpretation
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Log Text: See Pinson Mounds main page for my visitor log comments.
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.
Pinson Mounds - Sauls Mound
Date Added: 12th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Pinson Mounds - Sauls Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit on 14th Feb 2010. Sauls Mound (Mound 9)
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Log Text: See main Pinson Mounds article for visit information
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.
Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Date Added: 12th Apr 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Pinson Mounds - Sauls Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit on 14th Feb 2010. Sauls Mound (Mound 9)
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Log Text: Visited the Central or Inner section only. There's a lot to see here in this section alone if you include all of the mounds, habitation areas, other non-mound sites. It took me 3 hrs just to cover all of the Central area not including the museum. Most features with some exceptions are accessible via paved walkways so disabled access is good. Quite a bit of walking involved to see it all, and limited parking sites. The museum lot is the best base to start from for the Central area.
I will cover the western and eastern areas in a subsequent visit.
Pocahontas Mound A
Date Added: 14th Mar 2025
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Feb 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Pocahontas Mound A submitted by Flickr on 1st Nov 2019. Pocahontas Mound Image copyright: dmott9 (DM), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: I had visited this site a few years ago as Mound A is in a convenient state roadside park area with bathroom facilities. It's also on the way to more northerly MS mound sites like Jaketown and Winterville.
Anyway I just stopped by to check out the latest improvements. The site's outdoor interpretive signage provided by Mississippi State Univ has always been great, but now they've added some replicas of ceramics found during excavations to an exhibit inside the visitor center. This plus more interpretation inside and improved signage outside. With many mound sites neglected and even derelict, it's good to see some serious effort put forth towards visitor education in an easily accessible and well-preserved site.
Note: There was a Mound B north of this site in a private neighborhood that I looked for some yrs ago with no access. I'll see if I can find more info.
Poison Spider petroglyphs
Date Added: 30th May 2025
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: United States (The Southwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Poison Spider petroglyphs submitted by stonetracker on 31st May 2025. Many of the petroglyph panels depict hunting scenes. Human figures with weapons, including bow and arrow, pursuing bighorn sheep and other quadrupeds.
These are likely either from Ancestral Pueblo or Fremont periods.
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Log Text: During my visit to the southwestern US, I wanted to visit a few rock art sites that took a little more physical effort to get to. A little more trail walking or elevation gain than normal. Theoretically these sites would be less prone to graffiti tagging or vandalism, which is an issue at some roadside locations. Poison Spider is one of these more remote sites and as a bonus it also features petrified dinosaur tracks. It is just one of a chain of rock art sites that line both sides of the Colorado River just south of Moab UT.
To get to Poison Spider, take Route 191 north from Moab for a few miles. When you cross the Colorado River, take a left onto Route 279 (also known as Potash Rd) and continue for 6 miles past a few roadside petroglyph sites. Exit right off the road at the sign for Poison Spider Dinosaur Tracks and continue up a steep hill for a few hundred yards, then take a sharp right into a large paved lot with an info kiosk and restrooms.
Take the Longbow Arch trailhead behind the kiosk down the hill for about 200 yds. At this point there is an unmarked primitive trail that veers off from Longbow to the right and ascends the rocky slope at a moderate angle. Head for the dinosaur tracks which look like white footprints on a large boulder below the cliff face ledge (binoculars are helpful to spot these).
After viewing the tracks, head slightly to the right and up slope on a faint trail until you get to a flat ledge and the cliff face. The petroglyphs extend all along the cliff face to the right and left. When finished, you can either head back the way you came or scramble down from the left edge of the petroglyphs until you link back up with the Longbow Arch Trail that leads to the parking lot.
The whole journey is about 1/2 mile RT.
Note: I would not recommend this climb to anyone with severe knee, joint, or balance problems, as there is some degree of scrambling around rocks to get up and down. You can see a fair amount of the petroglyphs from the parking lot with reasonably powerful optics.
Raleigh Mound
Date Added: 8th Feb 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Raleigh Mound submitted by stonetracker on 7th Feb 2023. Creative Commons image of the northern side of the Raleigh Mound, located off W. Mound Street in Fredericktown OH.
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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.
Reily Cemetery Mound
Date Added: 31st Oct 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Reily Cemetery Mound submitted by bat400 on 9th Oct 2006. There seems to be no record on an excavation of this mound. With the Reily village cemetery created around it, it has been protected, at what is believed to have been its original size and height.
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Log Text: Visited late Oct 2023. Site is located as described, still in good condition.
Rentschler Park Hilltop Enclosure
Date Added: 2nd Mar 2023
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Rentschler Park Hilltop Enclosure submitted by stonetracker on 1st Mar 2023. A colorized version of Squier and Davis's map. A detail of the southern gateway is shown on the left side of the image.
Image Credit: ScienceViews.com
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Log Text: The site is in a park (Rentschler Forest MetroPark) and open to the public. There are two parking areas: one on the south side and one on the north side near the river. I opted to walk in from the south side. Parking is available in a lot at the end of a side street off of Rentschler Estates Drive. Signage refers to the site as "Line Hill Mound." The gateway is slightly over 0.5 mile away on a flat, easy trail (Mound Trail) which can get muddy so boots are advised in rainy weather. See picture post for a map of the trail system.
I did not check the northern entrance (Reigart Rd) and trail system, but it may be an easier way to explore those parts of the enclosure near the Great Miami River.
Richard's Bridge
Date Added: 19th Mar 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Feb 2024
Richard's Bridge submitted by stonetracker on 19th Mar 2024. Aerial view of habitation site
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Log Text: Saw from the road. The village is now in a cultivated field. The original mound was destroyed when the paved road was built.
River View Cemetery Mounds
Date Added: 31st Oct 2023
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
River View Cemetery Mounds submitted by stonetracker on 22nd Oct 2023. Main mound with signage.
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Log Text: Visited late Oct 2023. Main mound easily accessible in a traffic circle about 200 yds past the cemetery entrance. I was unable to positively locate the other mound (Lochry Massacre Mound) although I did locate the monument commemorating that historical event.