Mound A at the Grand Village remains a mystery. Numerous French colonial narratives describe the other two mounds there but do not mention this one. The Natchez Indians apparently stopped using it sometime before Europeans arrived in the area at the end of the seventeenth century, and the reason for its abandonment is not known. Part of the mound may have been lost to erosion from nearby St. Catherine Creek. Photographs looking toward Mound A were taken while the site was being cleared for the 1962 excavations and show the forested appearance of the Grand Village at that time. Those excavations failed to reveal how the Natchez Indians may have used the mound, and shortly after the photographs were taken, archaeological work there ended. Most of the 1962 excavations focused on Mounds B and C, and archaeologists have not resumed work at Mound A, leaving its unexcavated portion as a time capsule of the Natchez Indians' past.
