Mound 7 is a mound at Cahokia Mounds. The mound was the location of the "beaded burial", an elaborate burial process of what is believed to be one of the rulers of Cahokia. The mound began as a circle of 48 large wooden posts known as a "woodhenge", but they have since been dismantled.

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Location: Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois, United States

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