GPS Coordinates:
Latitude: 32.901083 Longitude: -91.774833
Driving
Directions:
— From US 165, head west on
La 140 (Old Bonita Road). Go 6.8 miles to marker on right.
— From US 425, head northeast on La 140. Go 7.8
miles to marker on left, 0.4 mile past Knox Ferry Road. |
| Number
of Mounds: 1 |
Number
of Visible Mounds: 1 |
| Summer
Viewing: Good |
Winter
Viewing: Good |
 Venable
is the only remaining mound of a three-mound group formerly known
as McTheney Mounds. It sits on a natural levee deposit on the
east bank of Bayou Bartholomew, about 1/3 mile northeast of the
edge of the Bastrop Hills. It’s a platform mound about 140
feet square and over 22 feet tall. The summit platform is about
50 by 50 feet. Venable Mound has the steepest slope of any mound
on the Mounds Trail. Ceramics from the site date to around AD
1200–1541 (Plaquemine/Mississippi period), but excavations
reveal that the site was occupied beginning between AD 400 and
700 (Troyville period). Construction of the mound began sometime
between AD 700 and 1200 (Coles Creek period) and continued into
Plaquemine times.
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