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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." ;-)
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.
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.
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.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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.
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.
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.
Florence Mound
Date Added: 19th Dec 2024
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Yes on 1st Dec 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Florence Mound submitted by stonetracker on 16th Feb 2023. Florence Mound. Source: https://alabamamoundtrail.org/mound-site/florence/. Sponsor: University of Alabama.
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Log Text: A very tall, steep Middle Woodland mound located in Florence AL near the north banks of the Tennessee River. Originally there was an 8 foot semi-circular embankment around the mound, but it was destroyed in the 19th or 20th century. The mound is now in a heavily developed industrial area within a fenced area. An adjacent city-owned museum provides a wealth of information on the site.
The mound is located a short distance east of Route 72 on a side street right after you cross over the Tennessee River from south to north. A paved driveway leads to a small parking area right after the museum.
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.
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.
Crucuno Cromlech
Date Added: 13th Dec 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Crucuno cromlech submitted by thecaptain on 21st Dec 2007. There are 22 remaining stones, on average 2 metres in height, arranged in a rectangle measuring about 33 metres by 25 metres.
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Log Text: This is a restored rectangular cromlech in good condition. It is not far from the much more frequented Crucuno Dolmen. If you want to lose the crowd, park near the dolmen and proceed down the dirt lane just to its left for 300-400 meters. Take the first trail to the right (avoid the residential abutters driveway!) and in another 100 m you will see a "Quadrilatere" sign on the right pointing out the short path to the site.
The area is quiet and secluded. There was no one there during my visit.
Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir
Date Added: 13th Dec 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Menhir du tumulus du Moustoir submitted by DrewParsons on 7th Nov 2009. The menhir on the top of the tumulus
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Log Text: There are three menhirs near the Moustoir Tumulus. This one is on top of the tumulus at its eastern end. It requires a very short but steep climb up the tumulus slope to access the top. Parking is the same as for the Moustoir Tumulus; see the visitor's log for that entry.
Note: This was the end of my Sept 2024 tour in the Carnac area. Hope to return to France in fall 2025, to visit sites in Finistere.
Menhir du Moustoir
Date Added: 13th Dec 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Menhir du Moustoir submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. The Moustoir tumulus has a small menhir on the top at the eastern end, and a larger one at the bottom of the western end.
The menhir at the western end is 3.3 metres high, quite thin and a nice pointed triangular shape.
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Log Text: There are three menhirs near the Moustoir Tumulus. This is the western menhir in a small field across the dirt road which separates it from the western edge of the tumulus. See Moustoir Tumulus visitor's log for parking; it's the same for the menhir.
Moustoir tumulus
Date Added: 12th Dec 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: France (Bretagne:Morbihan (56))
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Moustoir tumulus submitted by thecaptain on 10th Jun 2006. This massive great mound, 90 metres in length, 40 metres wide and 8 metres high, can be found just to the south of the hamlet of Moustoir, a few kilometres to the north of Carnac.
It has become terribly overgrown.
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Log Text: One of the huge Carnacean tumuli, with a semi-megalithic burial chamber on the western end and at least two burial cists between the mid-point and eastern end of the tumulus. Currently there is no public access to any of these interior features - they are all blocked.
The tumulus lies just southwest of the village of Moustoir, which itself is a short distance off the D186 on the Quatre Chemins road. There is a large dirt parking lot directly opposite the tumulus, which is no more than 100-200 m away.