Little Mountain Pictograph Site

Little Mountain Pictograph Site
Nearest city Blackstone, Virginia
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP Reference # 91000021[1]
VLR # 067-0107
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 15, 1991
Designated VLR August 21, 1990[2]

Little Mountain Pictograph Site is a historic archaeological site located near Blackstone, Nottoway County, Virginia. It is a winter solstice observation site that probably dates post-1400 AD and is Mississippian. It was recorded and published by the Virginia Rockart Survey. The three glyphs are located inside a cave or shallow shelter. They are a track glyph, hand glyph, and undefined glyph that appears to be a sun. The glyphs are in shadow all year except during the winter solstice, when the sun travels far enough south to illuminate the inside of the wall containing the glyphs.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
  3. William Hranicky (February 1990). Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia, Volume 1: Little Mountain Pictograph Site (44NT13), p. 443. Virginia Department of Historic Resources.


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