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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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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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Cahokia - Mounds 30 and 31
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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Cahokia - Powell Mound
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 1 Access 5
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Cahokia - Mound 48
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
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Cahokia - Mound 36
Trip No.2 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jul 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
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Cahokia
Trip No.2 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Apr 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cahokia - Monk's Mound submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Monk's Mound taken from the SE.
bat 400. 23 June 2007.
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Log Text: A huge, sprawling site that gives you more and more if you spend some time at both the museum and walking the huge expanse. I've visited many times starting in the mid 1990's. The earthen mounds are so large and so many in number that it's easy to become overwhelmed and a bit numb ("... oh, there's another mound ...")
Walking around the site and climbing to the top of the largest earthwork in the US, Monk's Mound, gives you an idea of the size of the site. This is a truncated pyramid with several terraces. The footprint is larger than that of the stone pyramids of Giza.
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 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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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 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 - 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 - 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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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 - 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 - Mound 66
Trip No.2 Entry No.10 Date Added: 30th May 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2
Log Text: From aerial photos this is one of the larger mounds at Cahokia. And although it is not on an easily accessible footpath, it can be seen from Forest Blvd., south of the modern Cahokia park. It lies at the southern boundary of the city proper and is 430' by 170' (east-west by north-south) and 25-30 feet high.
In the early 1900's a raised road or causway could be seen extending north from this mound toward the central area of Cahokia. The causeway was more recently confirm by Lidar imaging.
The mound was excavated in the 1920's and a great unfilled trench through the mound can still be seen. This excavation was performed because it appeared that expansion by the nearby rail road was scheduled to completely level the mound. This did not occur.
The mound had been used for burials: both the ancient people of Cahokia and the more recent French colonists.
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 5.
Trip No.2 Entry No.12 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (Great Lakes Midwest)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cahokia - Mound 5 submitted by bat400 on 10th Jul 2007. Mound 5 appears in the background. I am standing next to the stockade reconstruction. An Earthwatch dig was going on in a trench across the path of the stockade, although no one was working that day.
bat400. 23 June 2007.
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Common Fields
Trip No.2 Entry No.13 Date Added: 23rd Apr 2017
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: United States (The Plains)
Visited: Yes on 18th Oct 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Common Fields submitted by bat400 on 18th Oct 2007. Common Fields Site just south east of Ste Genevieve, MO. This mound is all that is left of a small Mississippian village. This view is from the railroad grade just west of the mound.
Photo by bat400, 13 Oct 2007.
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