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Old Stone Fort
Date Added: 17th Mar 2015
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: United States (The South)
Visited: Would like to visit
Old Stone Fort submitted by bat400 on 30th Jul 2006. Entrance to "Old Stone Fort."
Twin earthen mounds flanked a rectangular earth and stone work enclosure. This enclosure opened into the interior of the "Fort" to the left at the far end. You can see the back wall of the entry "room." These enclosure walls were much higher when first built. Portions of the ground were paved as for a walkway.
Stitched Photo by bat400, 13 Jul 2006.
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America's Stonehenge
Date Added: 27th Sep 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (New England)
Visited: Would like to visit
America's Stonehenge submitted by thecaptain on 14th Dec 2003. The sacrificial table at Mystery Hill, also known as America's Stonehenge, near Salem, New Hampshire. Is it an ancient site or a fairly modern construction ? They say its over 4000 years old, but who built it ?
When I visited 10 to 15 years ago it was a really horrible wet day, so I didnt get many pictures. And I have to say, that despite their best efforts to assure me that carbon dating of objects prove it to be 4000 years old, the stones just didnt look weathered enough to me.
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Criel Mound
Date Added: 27th Apr 2021
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Would like to visit
Criel Mound submitted by bat400_photo on 27th Feb 2017. The Criel Mound in South Charleston, West Virginia, USA.
Date: 12 February 2006
Source and Author: David G. Simpson, the copyright holder of this work, releases this work into the public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Criel_Mound.jpg
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Dunbar Mound
Date Added: 28th Apr 2021
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Mid Atlantic)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dunbar Mound submitted by AKFisher on 28th Jul 2023. Another of the Dunbar Mounds in West Virginia. This one was not excavated because it had a historic-era cemetery on its summit. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).
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Fort Salem
Date Added: 17th Mar 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound
Date Added: 6th Apr 2015
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Indiana - Sugarloaf Mound submitted by symbionspacesuit on 13th Feb 2010. Sugarloaf Mound of Indiana
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Marietta Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 6th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Marietta Earthworks submitted by bat400 on 13th Jan 2013. A riverside park plaque showing the Marietta Earthwork Complex as is appeared when the modern town was first built in the late 18thC.
"Conus" with its embankment appears just upper left of the center.
The rectangular "Quadranaou" is at lower center and the "Capitolium" lying as one of the smaller rectangular mound between Conus and Quadranaou.
The "Sacra Via" appears at the right.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2012.
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Log Text: The great mound inside of Mound Cemetery is really well preserved with its enclosure intact. Very fine setting in a charming town.
Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th May 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Circle Mound Enclosure
A stitched photo. The viewer is standing before the entrance, looking due west, into the enclosure.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Log Text: Second visit to this remarkable site. Camp sites are close by. Really superb as is the so called circle mound nearby within the same park.
Fairmount
Date Added: 7th Apr 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Fairmount submitted by bat400 on 3rd Dec 2007. Fairmount Mound. The Fairmount Presbyterian Church and cemetery were placed around this site by European settlers.
Photo - bat 400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Portsmouth Earthworks
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 12th May 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Portsmouth Works submitted by durhamnature on 21st Feb 2013. Old plan of the works, from "Prehistoric America" via archive.org
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Log Text: Only one horseshoe shaped mound remains in Portsmouth. Easy to visit and despite its modest size and location in a city park it still had a good ambience.
Piketon Mounds
Date Added: 7th Apr 2015
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Spruce Hill
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Vitrified Fort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Spruce Hill submitted by bat400 on 31st Jul 2007. The Spruce Hill plateau. Photo by Hikerdoc, July 2007.
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Log Text: A very large enclosure. A bit hard to find walls.walk to the right on a small path (west as entering enclosure) The arc of Appalachia folks were very easy to deal with as far as gaining entry. Bring your imagination.
Chrysler Enclosure
Date Added: 29th Jun 2017
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Chrysler Enclosure submitted by bat400 on 15th Jan 2007. Chrysler Enclosure, Henry County, IN.
Circular Earthwork Enclosure.
An earthen ring thrown up on the outside of a circular ditch, about 30 ft dia. The ditch is broken by an entry way sited to align the center of the enclosure with the winter solstice sunrise.
Photo by bat400 Oct 2006.
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Log Text: None
Hopewell Culture National Historic Site
Date Added: 17th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 7th May 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 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: second visit to this remarkable place. Its a knockout.
Flint Ridge
Date Added: 18th May 2015
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Flint Ridge submitted by bat400 on 18th Nov 2007. One of many quarry pits left by ancient stone hunters. The pits were rapidly filling up with fallen leaves when I visited. Photo - bat400, 3 Nov 2007.
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Log Text: 9,000 years of use.
Newark Earthworks - Octagon
Date Added: 18th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3
Newark Earthworks - Octagon submitted by durhamnature on 26th Jan 2013. Old drawing from "Mississippi Valley..." via archive.org
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Log Text: Now a fn golf course with very limited access and since you cannot enter it you cannot experience it. View from small platform outside while golfers play...sad
Newark Earthworks - Great Circle
Date Added: 18th May 2015
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Newark Earthworks submitted by aluta on 29th Apr 2005. A view from the center of the Great Circle Earthwork at Newark, Ohio, looking through the only entrance toward the museum on the grounds. The photo is taken from the low, broken-cross-shaped mound in the center. It is very difficult to get photos that give any sense of the whole at an earthwork this large.
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Log Text: the great center, wondrous
Reynolds Mound
Date Added: 27th Apr 2021
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Reynolds Mound submitted by AKFisher on 28th Jul 2023. Photo credit Gregory L. Little, Ed.D.
Reynolds Mound near St. Mary's, West Virginia.
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Angel Mounds
Date Added: 30th Apr 2021
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit
Angel Mounds submitted by bat400 on 11th Apr 2006. Angel Mounds Historic Site, Newburgh, Indiana.
Middle Mississipian Village.
Map from Site website, www.angelmounds.org, by permission.
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Göbekli Tepe
Date Added: 18th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Turkey
Visited: Would like to visit
Göbekli Tepe submitted by ModernExplorers on 4th Oct 2012. Layers of history, the walls looked more modern than the stone circles
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