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  • From: "Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Mounds
  • Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:36:52 -0500

What I circles there is about a 10 acre pasture.I lived on the road right in
front of the land when I was 6 years old. As far as I know the land has
never been plowed so the mounds are just like the people left them. Most of
the mounds are about 2' high. Most are 40' to 50' across. A lot of the land
in this area is low and during heavy rain water stands on a lot of it. They
had to build the mounds to get up out of the water.

I have searched every way I know and I can't find any information that
pertains to these mounds. I suspect they predate the Native Americans we
know but I can't prove it. I found a couple of arrows on one of the mounds
that are not the same as all the other Indian arrow heads I have seen. The
points of the arrow head is cut in a way the air will turn the arrow and
help it to shoot straighter.

Most of the pastures in that area that have never been plowed has these
mounds. There is a 40 acre plot 1/4 mile West of the one I circled in the
photo that has probably 200 mounds on it and this is just a couple of plots
out of several in the area that still has the mounds. Can you imagine the
work it took to build just one of these mounds. Every ounce of dirt in these
mounds was carried by hand and dumped on the mound. There was no other way
to get the dirt there.

There are several plots of land in this area that have never had the mounds
in my lifetime and they are level. I figure this is land that was tilled by
who ever lived on these mounds.

Art

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> Curiosity got me
>
> The aerial photo looks like open field with the mounds. How high are they
> and what is grown there now that the farmer didn't smooth them down?
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