 Mound A with antebellum home located atop | |
  Location in Mississippi today | |
| Location | Natchez, Mississippi, Adams County, Mississippi,  USA |
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| Region | Adams County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 31°35′54.31″N91°19′49.98″W / 31.5984194°N 91.3305500°W /31.5984194; -91.3305500 |
| History | |
| Periods | Foster Phase |
| Cultures | Plaquemine culture |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1971-72 |
| Archaeologists | Jeffrey P. Brain |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural details | Number of monuments: |
Foster's Mound | |
| Nearest city | Natchez, Mississippi |
| Area | 25 acres (10 ha) |
| Built | 1840 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 82003091[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 2, 1982 |
| Responsible body: private | |
Foster's Mound (22 AD 503) is aPlaquemine culturearchaeological site located inAdams County, Mississippi northeast ofNatchez offUS 61. It is thetype site for theFoster Phase (1350-1500 CE) of the Natchez Bluffs Plaquemine culture chronology. It was added to theNRHP on September 2, 1982 as NRIS number 82003091.[2] The mounds are listed on theMississippi Mound Trail.[3]
The Foster's site has twoplatform mounds and is located on the northern bank ofSt. Catherine Creek near its confluence with theMississippi River. The largest mound, Mound A, is 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height and 30 metres (98 ft) by 30 metres (98 ft) at its base and has had a plantation house on its summit since the 1790s. Its dimensions were originally smaller but it was enlarged to accommodate the veranda of the plantation house. Mound B is 220 metres (720 ft) to the south across a largeplaza area. It is an amorphous blob about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) at its highest point. It has been seriously eroded by the creek and is barely recognizable as a rectangular platform mound. The site sat at a major crossroads in Precolumbian times, because of its location on the original route of theNatchez Trace, directly connected toEmerald Mound to the northeast and theGrand Village of the Natchez to the southwest, and its proximity to the Mississippi River. The site was excavated in 1971-72 byJeffrey P. Brain as part of the Lower Mississippi Survey for thePeabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology ofHarvard University.Pottery recovered from beneath the mounds was found to beproto-Natchezan and was instrumental in defining the protohistoricFoster Phase (1350 to 1500 CE) of the Plaquemine culture chronology.[4]
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