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A mound in the Great Circle Earthworks One end of the Great Circle Earthworks, part of the Newark Earthworks. The 1,200-foot (370 m)-wide Newark Earthworks Great Circle (located in Heath, OH) is one of the largest circular earthworks in the Americas, at least in construction effort. A 5-foot (1.5 m) deep moat is encompassed by walls that are 8 ...
October 15, 1966. The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. The mound is the largest serpent effigy known in the world.
The Great Mound is the largest of the ten earthworks in the Mounds State Park. The Great Mound is approximately 390 feet (120 m) across and consists of a circular outer embankment 9 feet (2.7 m) high and 63 feet (19 m) wide, surrounding a 60 feet (18 m) wide ditch that is 10.5 feet (3.2 m) deep.
Around the edge of the large stone mound were a number of earthen mounds, some of which contained burials. [20] Newark Earthworks: Licking County, Ohio: The Newark Earthworks includes the Octagon and Great Circle Earthworks. [8] Serpent Mound: Adams County, Ohio: The effigy mound, on a plateau above Brush Creek, is 1,330 feet (410 m) long. [8]
561.8 ha. Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is a United States national historical park with earthworks and burial mounds from the Hopewell culture, indigenous peoples who flourished from about 200 BC to 500 AD. The park is composed of four separate sites open to the public in Ross County, Ohio, including the former Mound City Group ...
72001014 (P) [1] Added to NRHP. December 13, 1971 (W) February 23, 1972 (P) Indian Mound Reserve is a public country park near the village of Cedarville, Ohio, United States. Named for two different earthworks within its bounds — the Williamson Mound and the Pollock Works — the park straddles Massies Creek as it flows through a small canyon.
Serpent Mound crater, also known as the Serpent Mound Disturbance, [1] is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Ohio, United States. It lies largely in Adams County, with the northern part mostly in Highland County, except for a small northeast part in Pike County. [2][3] It is classified as a complex crater because it features a central uplift ...
Fort Ancient (33 WA 2) is a Native American earthworks complex located in Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, along the eastern shore of the Little Miami River about seven miles (11 km) southeast of Lebanon on State Route 350. The site is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States [2] with three and one-half miles ...