Changing Size and Color

Changing Size and Color (HM20TM)

Location: Shiloh, TN 38376 Hardin County
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Country: United States of America
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N 35° 8.668', W 88° 19.198'

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Seven hundred years ago you would have been looking at a mound covered with bright red clay instead of green grass, and you would have been gazing respectfully at a ceremonial building on the top.

The largest mound rises 25 feet above the ground's natural level, where you are standing. Originally the mound may have been low and round on the top.

Over the years, townspeople enlarged this structure by adding layers of brown, yellow, and gray soil. They made the top flat and coated the surface red. They also added a six-to-eight-foot apron on the west and south sides. What all the colors mean is unknown. The colors may represent which clan was in power. White may represent peaceful times and red, warlike periods.

Over the years stream-bank erosion has reduced the size of the apron and the mound.

Revealing Colors
Excavations in 2001-2003 revealed bands of color in the mound. These layers were created as different kinds of clay were added to the mound.

Mound cross-sections, 2003
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HM NumberHM20TM
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Placed ByNational Park Service U. S, Department of the Interior
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Date Added Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 at 7:04am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 379759 N 3889861
Decimal Degrees35.14446667, -88.31996667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 35° 8.668', W 88° 19.198'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds35° 8' 40.08" N, 88° 19' 11.88" W
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Area Code(s)731
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Riverside Dr, Shiloh TN 38376, US
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