Ormond Mound

Ormond Mound: Ormond Mound

Florida Historic Site

Indian Mound Park, City of Ormond Beach

Location: Volusia County, Florida

Nearest city: Ormond Beach, Florida

Coordinates: 29°16′48.5″N 81°3′12.4″W / 29.280139°N 81.053444°W / 29.280139; -81.053444

Governing body: City of Ormond Beach

Ormond Mound is a Pre-Columbian burial mound of the St. Johns culture, in Ormond Beach, Volusia County, Florida, US.

Contents

1 Overview

2 History

3 References

4 Gallery

5 External links

Overview

The Ormond Mound has been preserved as an intact burial mound in eastern Florida. The site was turned into a City Park in 1982 due to the efforts of the community.

History

It has been estimated that over 100 individual burials are in Ormond Mound, based on salvage excavations that were conducted in 1982. Most of these remains were laid to rest during the late St. Johns period, after A.D. 800.

A charnel house, a structure used to store bodies prior to burial, was located near the Ormond Mound. Charnel houses were used by the St. Johns people to prepare the corpses of mostly high-ranking and important people for the afterlife. The dead were laid out on wooden racks and allowed to decompose. A charnel house attendant, usually a high priest, would carefully remove the flesh from the bones as they decomposed.^[1]^[2]

After the bodies dried away, the charnel house priest would end up with individual sets of cleaned bones. Each set of bones was bundled up and buried in mounds during special ceremonies. This method accounts for the many skeletons found in burial mounds.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b True Natives: The Prehistory of Volusia County (1992), By Dana Ste. Claire, The Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach

^ ^a ^b A Nature Wooing at Ormond by the Sea (1902), By Willis Stanley Blatchley

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External links

Media related to Ormond Mound at Wikimedia Commons

Ormond Mound at Volusia County Heritage site

Ormond Beach Historical Society

Ormond Beach Historical Trust

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Ormond Mound
Florida Historic Site
Indian Mound Park, City of Ormond Beach


Location:	Volusia County, Florida
Nearest city:	Ormond Beach, Florida
Coordinates:	29°16′48.5″N 81°3′12.4″W / 29.280139°N 81.053444°W / 29.280139; -81.053444
Governing body:	City of Ormond Beach

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