page_title: Double Ditch
hierarchical_section_title: Double Ditch
caption_attribution_description: English: Mound B excavation at Double Ditch Indian Village site. Transcription: "Cross-section of Mound A, Burgois Village Site"--Printed on page underneath photograph. "Peabody Museum Papers Vol. III Pt. XXIX"--Printed on page above photograph. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79001769
context_page_description: Double Ditch, also known as the Double Ditch State Historic Site, Burgois Site, 32BL8, Bourgois Site, and Double Ditch Earth Lodge Village Site, is an archaeological site located on the east bank of the Missouri River north of Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. It is named for the two visible trenches that once served as fortifications for the village, but archaeologists found a further two ditches outside these indicating that the population was originally larger.
  The site was the location of a Mandan Native American earth lodge village from approximately 1450A.D. to 1785 A.D. It was abandoned after the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic. The site includes remains of earth lodges, midden mounds, and fortification ditches. It is managed by the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
  The site is the subject of two listings on National Register of Historic Places: one for its archaeological significance in 1979, the other for its Depression-era park structures in 2014.
context_section_description: Double Ditch, also known as the Double Ditch State Historic Site, Burgois Site, 32BL8, Bourgois Site, and Double Ditch Earth Lodge Village Site,  is an archaeological site located on the east bank of the Missouri River north of Bismarck, North Dakota, United States. It is named for the two visible trenches that once served as fortifications  for the village, but archaeologists found a further two ditches outside these indicating that the population was originally larger.
  The site was the location of a Mandan Native American earth lodge village from approximately 1450A.D. to 1785 A.D.    It was abandoned after the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic.  The site includes remains of earth lodges, midden mounds, and fortification ditches.  It is managed by the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
  The site is the subject of two listings on National Register of Historic Places: one for its archaeological significance in 1979, the other for its Depression-era park structures in 2014.
caption: Mound B excavation at Double Ditch Indian Village site, 1905
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