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Wade Landing Mound

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Founded
  
700 CE

Cultures
  
Coles Creek culture

Abandoned
  
1200

Wade Landing Mound

Location
  
Columbia, Louisiana, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana,  USA

Region
  
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana

Wade Landing Mound is an archaeological site of the Coles Creek culture (700 to 1200 CE) in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana.

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Description

The site contains a 9 feet (2.7 m) tall rectangular platform mound with a base measuring 130 feet (40 m) by 165 feet (50 m). Archaeologists have done core samples of the mound and determined that it was built in two stages. Combined with the core samples, ceramic analysis of artifacts found at the site have dated it to approximately 700–1200 CE. The mound has a historic period cemetery on its summit, which has prevented looting.

Location

The site is located on LA 559 13.4 miles (21.6 km) north of the Duty/Enterprise Ferry crossing.

References

Wade Landing Mound Wikipedia