The present-day visitor to Mound State Monument may see, on the 300-acre
Monument tract, 40 mounds which are the remnants of the Moundville
Indians' great city.
The visitor will be interested in identifying these mounds as
_domiciliary_ (as distinguished from burial mounds and effigy mounds
found at other Indian sites). These domiciliary mounds, which were
erected as substructures for temples and other important buildings, are
rectangular truncated-pyramids. Their sizes vary. The largest, called
Mound "B" (see map), is 58½ feet high and covers almost two acres.