[4] Deep ravines surround the mounds, and material, including Plaquemine culture pottery, is scattered in the area.

This 300-year period saw the transformation of the site into a regionally significant multi-mound center, possibly ruled over by a burgeoning hereditary elite class.

James A. Ford, Jesse D. Jennings and John L. Cotter also worked at the site at different times over the next fifty years.

Cotter's 1951 excavations and analysis of the site were important in establishing the phases for the Natchez Bluffs chronology.

The Gulf Coast Survey and the Alabama Museum of Natural History conducted joint excavations in 1997 and reaffirmed the previous chronological placement of the site.