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Mounds (Indiana) - Circle Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
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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Mounds State Park (Indiana) - Earthwork D
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork D submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Earthwork D.
"Lost" until 1988 when underbrush was removed from the site. Woods now block a clear view between the Great Mound and the center of this smaller, now shallow earthwork. The winter solstice sunset falls beyond the center of this enclosure when viewed from the center of the Great Mound. The forest debris slowly filled in the ditch within the outer embankment ring.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork B
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Earthwork B submitted by bat400 on 23rd Oct 2006. Mounds - Earthwork B.
The earthwork is oval, with an "entrance" on each end, and very small, only 8-9 feet long. It is in the immediate foreground, only an indentation. The Great Mound can be seen in the background, behind the rail fence.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Mounds (Indiana) - Great Mound
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Oct 2006
Mounds (Indiana) - Great Mound submitted by bat400 on 22nd Oct 2006. Mounds - The Great Mound.
View from the east with wild asters, the last flower of the season. The outer embankment wall prevents an outside viewer from seeing the central platform within. The exceptions are three dips in the embankment allowing a line of sight to the centers of three smaller earthwork enclosures surrounding the Great Mound.
Photo: bat400 Oct 2006.
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Chrysler Enclosure
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Henge
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2007
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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Sam Chucalo Mound
Trip No.2 Entry No.11 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007
Sam Chucalo Mound submitted by bat400 on 1st Jul 2007. Perserved in a residential neighborhood outside of East St. Louis. This may be a remnant of a large mound group, a "suburban" Cahokia.
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Cahokia - Mound 60
Trip No.2 Entry No.6 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 60 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Fox Mound (Mound 60) and Roundtop Mound (Mound 59). These "Twin Mounds" are located at the southern edge of the huge central plaza bounded by Monk's Mound on the north. The view is from Monk's Mound.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Monk's Mound
Trip No.2 Entry No.8 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Pyramid / Mastaba
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. The twin mounds of Fox and Roundtop can be seen over the south west "lip" on the lower platform of Monk's Mound. At one time there was a small building here.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 42
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007
Cahokia - Mound 42 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 42 was a platform mound directly west of Monk's Mound. Originally there was a smaller, oval second platform on its SW corner. Beyond this well-preserved mound you can make out a low mound partially blocking the view of the Woodhenge reconstruction (where the cars are parked.)
Looming up on the horizon is the East St Louis landfill, a modern testiment to our never ending consumption.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Cahokia - Stockade
Trip No.2 Entry No.7 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cahokia - Stockade submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. View of the stockade reconstruction from the top platform of Monk's Mound. We are looking east toward modern Collinsville. It's difficult to see with the overcast light, but there are the faint undulations of multiple mounds in the field beyond the stockade line. The stockade reconstruction is built on the original location. Two open archaeological units are part of summer digs.
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UMR Stonehenge
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2007
UMR Stonehenge submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. At Summer sunset.
bat400, 22 june 2007.
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Spruce Hill
Date Added: 28th Apr 2017
Site Type: Vitrified Fort
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Would like to visit on 1st Jan 0000
Spruce Hill submitted by bat400 on 31st Jul 2007. Spruce Hill has more than one gate. This photo was taken through the main, south east gate, facing into the enclosure.
Photo by Hikerdoc, July 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 59
Trip No.2 Entry No.5 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 59 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 59, Illinois. Also called "Roundtop" Mound. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Woodhenge
Trip No.2 Entry No.9 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Timber Circle
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cahokia - Woodhenge submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Woodhenge, Illinois. A central cedar post stood within the circle of 44 posts. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Museum
Trip No.2 Entry No.2 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5
Cahokia - Museum submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Visitor's Center and Museum, Illinois. When the center was built the post holes and building footprints of multiple small houses were revealed and completely excavated. The size and orientation of these homes has been recorded in a painted image on the paved areas around the building. Inside the museum several buildings' footprints have been incorporated into the museum displays. Photo by bat400, July 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 72
Trip No.2 Entry No.4 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 72 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 72. This burial mound was originally described as a rectangular mound with a sharp ridge running down its center. The shape now is the result of several excavations that took place before the 1960's. The contour of that last dig has been recreated. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Cahokia - Mound 55
Trip No.2 Entry No.3 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 4th Aug 2007. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Cahokia - Mound 55 submitted by bat400 on 4th Aug 2007. Cahokia - Mound 55. One of the smallest mounds at Cahokia that was shaped into a flat topped pyramid shape. Monk's Mound can be seen behind Mound 55. Photo by bat400, June 2007.
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Modoc Rock Shelter
Trip No.2 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007
Modoc Rock Shelter submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. A drive-up prehistoric site. Modoc rock shelter lies directly along Illinois State Road 7. Used periodically for 9000 years.
Photo by bat400, Oct 13, 2007.
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Emerald Mound, Illinois
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007
Emerald Mound, Illinois submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Emerald Mound was built on the top of a local rise above Silver Creek. A village surrounded this central mound, but very little of any other structures remain.
The mound itself is owned by the State of Illinois, but it is surrounded by privately owned farm land.
Photo by bat400
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Flint Ridge
Date Added: 12th Sep 2010
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 18th Nov 2007
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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