Built thousands of years ago, the mound is an important archaeological site.

Its precise size cannot be determined: the mound was built atop a small hill, and thousands of years of erosion have molded the two into a single shape.

Such a gorget is distinctive of sites affiliated with the mound-building Adena culture, which was responsible for heavy activity in the vicinity of modern Fredericktown — another Adena site, the Stackhouse Mound and Works, sits to the northeast less than 1 mile (1.6 km) away.

[4] In 1975, the Raleigh Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its archaeological importance.

[1] Significant to this designation was its relationship to the Stackhouse site, as the nearby placement of the latter's larger earthworks and village site meant that a detailed investigation of the mound would have a chance of providing archaeologists with an unusually detailed understanding of the people who built it.