Diamond Bluff Site or Mero Mound Group is an archeological site near Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin, in Pierce County, Wisconsin. It consists of at least two village sites surrounded by hundreds of mounds, including three effigy mounds. All were constructed from around 1000 CE to 1300. It is also known as 47-Pi-2. As Mero Archeological District, its boundaries were increased in 1992.
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