Location | Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi, USA |
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Region | Claiborne County, Mississippi |
Coordinates | 31°59′30.3″N 90°53′59.14″W / 31.991750°N 90.8997611°W |
History | |
Periods | Foster Phase |
Cultures | Plaquemine culture |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 1936, 1951, 1963 |
Archaeologists | Charles F. Bohannon |
Responsible body: State of Mississippi |
Mangum Mound Site (22 CB 584) is an archaeological site of the Plaquemine culture in Claiborne County, Mississippi. It is located at milepost 45.7 on the Natchez Trace Parkway.[1] Two very rare Mississippian culture repoussé copper plates have been discovered during excavations of the site. The site was used as a burial mound during the Foster Phase of the culture (1350 to 1500 CE) and is believed to have been abandoned before the 1540 expedition of Hernando de Soto.[2]