Swallow Bluff Island Mounds
40 HR 16

Location within Tennessee today
Location	Saltillo, Tennessee, Hardin County, Tennessee,  USA
Region	Hardin County, Tennessee
Coordinates	35°23′25.87″N 88°9′32.51″W / 35.3905194°N 88.1590306°W / 35.3905194; -88.1590306
History
Founded	CE
Cultures	Mississippian culture
Site notes
Archaeologists	Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Architecture
Architectural styles	Platform mounds, plaza

The Swallow Bluff Island Mounds (40HR16) comprise a Mississippian culture archaeological site located near Saltillo on Swallow Bluff Island in the Tennessee River in Hardin County, Tennessee.

Site

The Swallow Bluff Island Mounds site is the northernmost outpost of the Mississippian culture Shiloh polity, a group of communities centered on the much larger Shiloh or edit

In his 1914 visit, C. B. Moore dug into the main mound looking for pottery and other artifacts. He found over 20 stone box graves at the summit of the mound. After his visit, the site went without notice again, except by locals and looters, for almost 70 years. In the early 1980s, archaeologist Gerald Smith visited the site to investigate suspected pot looters holes, although they may actually been the remnants of Moore's "excavations". After a disastrous flood in 2003, archaeological surveys and excavations were undertaken to learn as much about the main mound as possible before it was completely claimed by the river.^[1]

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