Denmark Mound Group

Denmark Mound Group
(40 MD 85)

Location in Tennessee today
Alternative name	Denmark Site
Location	Denmark, Madison County, Tennessee, USA
Region	West Tennessee
Coordinates	35.50832°N 89.03041°W / 35.50832; -89.03041
History
Cultures	Mississippian culture
Architecture
Architectural details	Number of monuments: 3
Denmark Mound Group (40MD85)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NRHP reference No.	92001656[1]
Added to NRHP	December 7, 1992

The Denmark Mound Group or Denmark Site (40MD85) is a Mississippian culture archaeological site on a low bluff overlooking Big Black Creek, a tributary of the Hatchie River near Denmark in Madison County, Tennessee. The site features include a village with over 70 structures, 2 rectangular platform mounds and a small conical burial mound as well as possible evidence of a surrounding palisade.^[2] The site was added to the NRHP in 1992.^[1]

See also

• Annis Mound
• Chucalissa
• Obion Mounds

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Scott Hadley Jr. (2013). Multi-Staged Research at the Denmark Site, A Small Early-Middle Mississippian Town (Masters thesis). University of Memphis.

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