Mound E

Mound E is nicknamed the Ballcourt Mound, for two shallow depressions on its flat top. It stands about 13 feet high roughly 1,330 feet south of Mound A, with a ramp on its northeast corner. Excavations found five construction stages and few artifacts, among them some chert from far away. Earlier dating leaned on comparison with Mound B, but a 2017 charcoal sample from the ramp's base suggests it was built after 1500 BCE. About 90 feet of its southern end once ran past the park line and no longer stands.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 0.5 mi
  Louisiana's only World Heritage Site: six C-shaped ridges, a 43-acre plaza and Mound A, raised on Macon Ridge between about 1700 and 1100 BCE.
• Louisiana State Cotton Museum — 17 mi
  A state museum on US 65 north of Lake Providence with a sharecropper's cabin, a commissary and a gin house, in the parish where John H. Scott worked for Black voting rights.
• Grant's Canal, Lake Providence — 18 mi
  About 1,000 feet of the ditch Union troops dug in early 1863 to get Grant's army around Vicksburg, with a boardwalk, a pier and a visitor center in the Byerley House.
• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 22 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.

More markers nearby

• Mound A — steps away
• Southwest Ridges — 0.3 mi
• After Poverty Point — 0.4 mi
• Poverty Point Artifacts — 0.4 mi