Balmoral Mounds (
16 TE 12) is an
archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology an ...
of the
Coles Creek culture
Coles Creek culture is a Late Woodland archaeological culture in the Lower Mississippi valley in the Southeastern Woodlands. It followed the Troyville culture. The period marks a significant change in the cultural history of the area. Population i ...
in
Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Tensas Parish (french: Paroisse des Tensas) is a parish located in the northeastern section of the State of Louisiana; its eastern border is the Mississippi River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,252. It is the least populated paris ...
. The site has components located both on the east and west sides of
US 65
U.S. Route 65 (US 65) is a north–south United States highway in the southern and midwestern United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 425 in Clayton, Louisiana. The northern terminus is at Interstate 35 just south of ...
near Bayou Rousset.
Description
The site consists of 3
platform mound
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s that form an equilateral triangle. Mound A, the southwesternmost of the group, measures in height, with the base being by . Mound B, the northernmost mound, is a dome shaped mound measuring in height, with the base being by . The northernmost mound in the triangle, Mound C, is also a dome shaped mound and measures in height, with the base being by . Core samples of Mounds A and C suggest they were built at roughly the same time and in single stages
Location
The site is located on
US 65
U.S. Route 65 (US 65) is a north–south United States highway in the southern and midwestern United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 425 in Clayton, Louisiana. The northern terminus is at Interstate 35 just south of ...
south of Somerset.
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See also
*Balmoral, Louisiana
Balmoral is an unincorporated community in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States.
See also
*Balmoral Mounds
Balmoral Mounds ( 16 TE 12) is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture in Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The site has components ...
* Culture, phase, and chronological table for the Mississippi Valley
*Flowery Mound
Flowery Mound is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana with components from the Late Coles Creek and Plaquemine-Mississippian culture which dates from approximately 950–1541.
Description
The site is located on Andrews Bayou. The ...
*Ghost Site Mounds
The Ghost site ( 16 TE 18), or Ghost site mounds is an archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, with an early to middle Coles Creek culture component (700–1200 CE) and a Late Coles Creek to Plaquemine culture component (1200 to 1541 CE ...
*Sundown Mounds
Sundown Mounds is an multimound archaeological site in Tensas Parish, Louisiana from the Early Coles Creek culture.
It is the type site for the ''Sundown Phase (600-800 CE)'' of the Tensas Basin and Natchez Bluff Coles Creek chronology.
Descript ...
References
External links
Balmoral Mound
{{Pre-Columbian North America
Archaeological sites of the Coles Creek culture
Geography of Tensas Parish, Louisiana
Mounds in Louisiana
7th-century establishments in Coles Creek culture
12th-century disestablishments in Coles Creek culture