Existing comment:
The big structure (with the staircase) on the left is the Great Temple Mound. On the right is a smaller mound. The sign says:
Lesser Temple Mound (Mound B)
Archeologists estimate about three-fourths of this mound was removed by railroad construction in the early 1840's. It is a truncated (flat-topped) pyramid originally about 120 feet in diameter at its widest point and almost 12 feet high. A soil profile taken on the northern face suggests the mound was constructed in four distinct phases. |