Annis Mound and Village site

The Annis Mound and Village site (15BT2, 15BT20, and 15BT21) is a prehistoric Middle Mississippian culture archaeological site located on the bank of the Green River in Butler County, Kentucky, several miles northwest of Morgantown in the Big Bend region.

It was surrounded by the village area (15 BT 20) which was situated north of the generally east to west course of the Green River at the sites location.

The village featured domestic structures and several sequential iterations of an encircling defensive palisade of upright tree trunks.

The palisade was built three different times in the site's history; each one larger than its predecessor and encircling an expanded village area.

Ceramics found at the site were typical Mississippian culture pottery; although a few sherds of high status pottery from the Cahokia site were discovered during excavations of the platform mound summit structure.

Annis Village site