Leake Mounds, Archaeological site near Cartersville, Georgia, US.

Leake Mounds is an archaeological site in Bartow County, Georgia, with at least three platform mounds and a large semi-circular ditch. It lies on the Etowah River, 2 miles west of Etowah Mounds. Excavations of nearly 50,000 square feet revealed a Middle Woodland center occupied from about 300 BCE to 650 CE.

People lived at this site between roughly 300 BCE and 650 CE and built the mounds across several construction phases. Settlement stopped several centuries before similar mounds were built downstream.

Pottery found here features diamond-shaped patterns that show how southeastern Native Americans shared artistic traditions with communities from the Midwest. This connection reveals how distant groups traded and exchanged ideas across long distances.

Portions of the site were damaged in the 1940s, but the remaining sections are accessible to visitors. Wear sturdy shoes since the ground is uneven and overgrowth can be thick in some areas.

Excavations covering nearly 50,000 square feet found diamond-shaped check pottery at Leake Mounds, a decoration also known from Hopewell sites in Ohio such as Seip, Rockhold, Harness and Turner, and from the Mann site in southern Indiana. Related pieces turned up at Miner's Creek and Mandeville in Georgia and the Yearwood site in Tennessee.