Site type guide
Mound
Mound sites reveal how different traditions shape sacred space through architecture, landscape, ritual, and memory.
22 mound sacred sites. Use the country and tradition filters to narrow in.
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Mound sacred sites overview
Mound sacred sites span countries, traditions, pilgrimage routes, and sacred landscapes represented in the Pilgrim Map atlas.
Use this guide to compare major country clusters, represented traditions, UNESCO-tagged places, and the map distribution before opening individual site pages.
| Coverage | 22 mound sacred sites across the current atlas. |
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| UNESCO heritage | 1 UNESCO-tagged mound site appear in this browse view. |
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Alişar Höyük
Yozgat, Sorgun area, Turkey
Alişar Höyük is the stratigraphic foundation of Central Anatolian archaeology. When the Oriental Institute of Chicago excavated it systematically in 1927–1932, they...
Arslantepe
Malatya, Orduzu, Turkey
Arslantepe is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Malatya that preserves the oldest known palace on earth and the world's earliest swords....
Aztalan Mounds, Wisconsin
Lake Mills, Wisconsin, United States
On the banks of the Crawfish River, platform mounds rise from prairie grass where they have stood for a millennium....
Borre Mound Cemetery
Horten, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Nine monumental mounds rise from parkland above the Oslofjord, marking where Norse kings with claimed divine ancestry were laid to rest over three centuries....
Bride's Mound
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Behind an industrial estate on Glastonbury's western edge, a small mound rises from a field. Few visitors find it....
Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois
Collinsville, Illinois, United States
Eight miles from downtown St. Louis, across the Mississippi, 70 earthen mounds mark what was once the largest city north of Mexico....
Crystal River Mounds, Florida
Crystal River, Florida, United States
On Florida's Gulf Coast, six mounds rise above the Crystal River where, for sixteen centuries, peoples gathered to bury their dead with copper from the Great Lakes and...
Effigy Indian Mound, Iowa
Allamakee County, Iowa, United States
High above the Mississippi River, on bluffs overlooking one of America's great waterways, ancestors built the earth into the shapes of bears, birds, and water spirits....
Emerald Mound, Stanton, Mississippi
Stanton, Mississippi, United States
Rising from the Mississippi landscape, Emerald Mound covers eight acres and stands as the second-largest Mississippian ceremonial mound in the United States, surpassed...
Etowah mounds, Georgia
Cartersville, Georgia, United States
In the rolling hills of northwest Georgia, six earthen mounds rise above the Etowah River where the Mississippian people built one of the most powerful chiefdoms in...
Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, Ohio
Moundsville, West Virginia, United States
Rising sixty-two feet above the Ohio River valley, Grave Creek Mound stands as one of the largest conical burial mounds in North America....
Hågahögen
Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
A massive earthen mound fifty metres across and three thousand years old stands in a quiet valley west of Uppsala....
Inglinge hög
Ingelstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden
Inglinge hog dominates its Smaland landscape: a burial mound thirty-seven meters across and six meters high, crowned by a standing stone and an ornate stone sphere known...
Kaman-Kalehöyük
Kırşehir, Çağırkan / Kaman, Turkey
Kaman-Kalehöyük holds over 40 layers of human occupation spanning 9,000 years — from the Chalcolithic through the Ottoman period — in central Anatolia....
Kincaid Mounds, Brookport, Illinois
Brookport, Illinois, United States
For 350 years, Kincaid Mounds served as the heart of a chiefdom where thousands gathered for ceremony, governance, and trade....
Lake Jackson Mounds, Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
In the rolling hills north of Tallahassee, six earthen mounds rise from the red clay of Florida's Panhandle....
Marksville mounds
Marksville, Louisiana, United States
For two thousand years, the mounds at Marksville have held the dead. The Marksville culture that built them was connected by trade and ceremony to peoples across North...
Marlborough Mound
Marlborough, England, United Kingdom
In the grounds of Marlborough College stands a 19-meter mound that most visitors to Wiltshire never see....
Norton Mound Group
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
On the banks of the Grand River near Grand Rapids, eleven earthen mounds rise from the landscape, remnants of a burial ground created over 1,500 years ago....
Rakni Burial Mound
Jessheim, Viken, Norway
In the farmlands north of Oslo, an earthen mound rises fifteen metres above the plain, wider than a football pitch....
Tervajoki Barrow Cemetery
Isokyrö, Isokyrö / Vaasa area – Ostrobothnia, Finland
At Tervajoki, on the historic border of Isokyrö and Vähäkyrö, stone heaps and low earthen mounds mark the Aittoomäki burial ground of a farming community that settled the...
The King's Grave (Kungagraven)
Kivik, Skåne län, Sweden
The King's Grave at Kivik is singular. Beneath a cairn seventy-five meters across, a stone cist bears rock carvings depicting solar crosses, chariots, processional...
Key questions
Mound sacred-site questions
- What mound sacred sites are included?
- Mound sacred sites are places where this site type carries religious, ritual, cultural, or pilgrimage significance. This guide lists 22 in the current Pilgrim Map atlas.
- Where are these mound sites located?
- Major country clusters include United States, Sweden, Turkey, Norway, United Kingdom, Finland.
- Which traditions are represented?
- Traditions represented here include Indigenous, Celtic and Prehistoric, Ancient, Nature Spirituality, Baltic-Finnic Iron Age Mortuary Tradition, Christianity.
- Can I view mound sacred sites on a map?
- Yes. Compare the country and tradition clusters, switch to map view for geography, then use site pages for practical context and related places.