Hardee

Hardee Pictures

Hardee Virtual Model

The Hardee site consists of three mounds, though mound C was destroyed for road fill; mound A is a 4 meter high rectangular platform mound with a 50 by 75 meter base and a ramp on the north side, which exhibited burials and pottery; mound B had been destroyed by cultivation at the time of the mid-century surveys and was only half a meter high (Phillips 1970, 474). There are signs of a possible embankment across the creek from the mounds that is 40 meters wide and half a meter high on the west end, 22 meters wide and 2 meters high on the east end, and 250 meters in length, as noted by Eames (Phillips 1970, 474). The ceramic assemblage, which includes Barton incised, Baytown plain, Plaquemine, and Mississippi plain, clearly indicates a component of the Mayersville phase (Phillips 1970, 475). An excavation of mound A in 1934 uncovered late prehistoric sherds and bone fragments (LMS Archives Online, 22-M-8).