Abstract
Located at the Cahokia site, immediately east of Monks Mound, the western portion of Ramey Field is known to include several mounds, a stockade that was rebuilt three times, numerous Late Woodland and Mississippian houses and pits, and more than a meter of sub-plow-zone cultural midden. A portion of Ramey Field was surveyed in 2003–4 using magnetic field gradiometry (43,600 m2) and electrical resistance (29,200 m2). Survey goals were to identify largescale public or ritual architecture and to assess the usefulness of near-surface geophysical surveys in an area of deep, complex deposits. Very few typical features such as structures and pits could be identified. At least five construction episodes and a circular structure measuring 20 m in diameter were identified in Mound 36. A massive complex of resistance and magnetic anomalies overlooking Cahokia Creek may represent a previously unknown mound, constructed surface, reclaimed borrow pit, or facility associated with possible stockade entryways.
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