Ingomar Mound

Ingomar Mound is the large central mound and sole remaining feature of a ceremonial center of the late Mississippian Period of cultural development. A total of 13 mounds composing the group have been excavated. Believed to be a temple mound, Ingomar is the only structure of the group not overrun by later agriculture and development, thus generally undisturbed when archeologists began studying the complex of mounds.^[3] At least one of the mounds in the group was a flat-topped burial mound.^[4] Ingomar is one of the largest such mounds found in the Southeast.^[5] Ingomar is important because of its potential for the testing of theories about aboriginal settlement pattern hypotheses, such as the Clay's system environments theory^[6] and Steponaitis' spatial efficiency theory^[7][8]

Camp area on top of Ingomar Mound

Ingomar Mounds
(22 UN 500)

Stairs leading up Ingomar Mound
Location within Mississippi today
Location	Ingomar, Mississippi, Union County, Mississippi,  USA
Region	Union County, Mississippi
Coordinates	34°23′50.1″N 89°02′57.7″W
History
Founded	200 AD
Abandoned	1800 AD
Cultures	Woodland period, Mississippian culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural styles	platform mound
Architectural details	Number of monuments:1
Ingomar Mound
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mississippi Landmark
NRHP reference No.	78001632[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 9, 1978
Designated USMS	September 11, 2002[2]
Responsible body: The Archaeological Conservancy