Burial mound

[archer66]

This is a pic of a pair of mounds in the middle of the hayfield on my grandfathers farm. My family has been farming around these since the 1930's...they were dug by someone before my grandfather bought the place in the 1930's. Each mound is probably 30-40 feet in diameter and between 2 and 4 foot above the surrounding field. They are seperated by about 30-40 feet. Both are covered with flat rocks but are flattened out on top rather than rounded or domed....actually are a little concave on top, I'm guessing from settling over the years and from having been dug in. I don't know what was found when they were dug because the folks that did it are long dead and my grandfather never asked the previous owner of the farm. There is a second set of mounds almost identical to these on a different ridgetop about half a mile away. They were dug as well.

As far as finding artifacts around them goes...I know it is illegal to dig in burial mounds....so no digging has or will take place. I find the occaisional broken piece or flake in the hayfield but the real treasure is in the creeks on the farm. There are 5 different streams on the place that all feed between ridges dumping into a larger creek that is in a wide creek bottom on the neighbors place. I don't have permission to hunt the fields in the bottom or the creek...yet. I plan to get in touch with the neighbor and see if I can hunt there next winter/spring.

Anyway, here is a pic of the mounds. They are easier to see before the grass and hay get so tall.

 

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[quito]

Cool!

Thanks for sharing. Good luck in your future hunting spot hopefully.

 

[SoIll]

Not all mounds are burial grounds. Have archaeologist checked it out?

 

[archer66]

Not all mounds are burial grounds. Have archaeologist checked it out?

Yes....years and years ago my grandfather had someone come take a look.

 

[Th3rty7]

nice picture , those trees really tell a story, respect.

 

[Fla-Gal]

Please tell us in what state your grandfather's farm is located and where are you from......any other research been done in the area ? Found a treasure trove of info from our SW Virginia historical group,,,some papers were written/reported in the 20's.....hope you might find more details and then be sure to start a journal so 70 years from now your info will be enjoyed by many others.

 

[Jonnyreb]

It looks a lot like the ones around here. Not all are "burials" though. Most here that look like yours are a combination of homesite and burial mounds. The deceased would be buried underneath the hard clay baked floor of the house, usualy in a corner. Children especially. For adults, the house would be burned down over the grave and a new one re built. Out here, you can see the gopher mounds full of black charred sand and bone on these things. They are everywhere. I even have two of em in my yard.
Nice pics. I love looking at mounds and such.

 

[Tnmountains]

Hey Archer
Glad to see that you guys are taking care of it. So many of our mounds have been dug out or are underwater by TVA. One field I hunt about once a year is or was a temple mound. They dozed off the top of it of to make it more level for planting. It is almost twenty feet deep with shell along the river that borders it and full of shells flint and bones. It also is full of burials and sometimes they will get washed out into the river. One rain and the stuff is sucked into deep water and lost forever. Erosion is caused by TVA with their enlarging all water ways. I have permissions to hunt it from the landowner the fields that is and may try it next weekend.
Have also seen sites where rocks have been piled since ancient times for planting and trees grew up around it and resembled mounds after years. One on my sisters we have been tempted to run a test trench for ummm twenty years now,lol .Sorry did not mean to hi jack your post or ramble. But have seen a few mounds in my journeys. Thanks for showing yours. Looks like you will have hay before to long.
Enjoyed seeing your post Archer.
later
TnMountains