do ya thank this is a mound?

[wvwildman]

 

[Red Earth]

Good chance

 

[monsterrack]

It looks like one, only one way to tell, take a core sample.

 

[joshuaream]

Are those trees or bushes on top? It certainly looks like a mound, but it looks a lot bigger than even the big mound at Moundville, West Virginia.

A mound that big in an open area has probably been named/recorded. Maybe do a google search for large mounds in the county where it's from to see if it's mentioned?

 

[wvwildman]

them are hemlock trees on the other side the farmer has a house next to them trees

 

[wvwildman]

i haven't never heard anyone talk about it its bout a mile from my house i live in fayette county wv

 

[wvwildman]

it has a sunk in place on one side of it i should have took some more picks but i didn't feel like walking around the field i was probably 200 yards from it when i took that pic the fields around it is mostly flat

 

[outlawatheart]

was wondering if it is near any old coal mines

 

[wvwildman]

no its all farm land

 

[NC field hunter]

Ask some questions locally. It may be a large trash pile. Trash=treasure! I would think a mound that size would be marked.

 

[wvwildman]

i'm gonna talk to the farmer before long see what he knows about it i know there has been a lot of arrowheads and other stuff found around here over the years. one of my dads friends had a big trunk full of stuff i wish i could have gotten it after he passed away

 

[smokeythecat]

Looks a mite big for a mound, but could be. Also could be the "high ground" the natives camped on.

 

[wvwildman]

its not as big as ya thank it is i was about 200 yards or more when i took the pic and i was on the down hill side of it

 

[wvwildman]

i would say its a lot smaller then the one at moundsville

 

[joshuaream]

Scale is a hard thing to judge in pictures. That's why I was wondering about the size of the trees on top. If they were 20 feet tall, then the mound would probably be too large to be a mound.

The big mound at Moundsville is 60 feet or so high, what would you guess the height of potential mound is? The base looks big.

 

[wvwildman]

somewhere between 30 some to 40 some feet tall

 

[wvwildman]

when my back feels better i'm gonna walk back over there and get some more pics

 

[monsterrack]

The size does not make a mound or not, it was the size of the tribe that made the mound or how many tribes used it. I have the 2nd largest mound 5mi from my home. It is a mound with two mounds on top of it, it is over 75yrds wide and 250yrds long, it had a plaza and two temple mounds, it's called Emerald mound. I will get some photos soon and post them, just over in La. is where the 2nd tallest mound was till it was pushed down for dirt to build a church, it was a 2 level mound with a cone shape top, it's called troyville. Never seen anything like it except when uncle sam had me take a little trip to Indonesia and south America. I have local mounds that are burial mounds no more than 15ft tall and 40ft long.

 

[catherine1]

I doubt that is a mound unless it was found in context with other mounds in that area. Location is everything.

 

[quito]

Should be some borrow pits nearby, or at least sign of the earth being altered to come up with the material to make a mound that big.