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[2]: 225 The potential of these mounds for long-distance communication was demonstrated in 1990 by three groups of volunteers. After climbing the Great Mound, the first group established visual contact with the Hill-Kinder Mound in Franklin (more than 11 miles (18 km) to the northeast [ 4 ] ), from which point the observers of the second group ...
An 8 feet (2.4 m) tall burial mound located near the village of Lithopolis in Fairfield County, Ohio, within the boundaries of Chestnut Ridge Metro Park, [10] in northern Bloom Township. [11] Orators Mound: Located along the Inman Trail of Glen Helen Nature Preserve near Yellow Springs in Greene County, Ohio. Carl Potter Mound
The Ellis Mounds are a complex of Native American mounds near Marysville in Union County, Ohio, United States. [1] These three mounds form an east-west line on a small ridgeline in a farm field. Believed to have been built by Hopewellian peoples , the mounds are important because they may reveal information about daily life in the Hopewell culture.
The Portsmouth Earthworks are a large prehistoric mound complex constructed by the Native American Adena and Ohio Hopewell cultures of eastern North America (100 BCE to 500 CE). [2] The site was one of the largest earthwork ceremonial centers constructed by the Hopewell and is located at the confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers, in present ...
All other mounds at the site were substructure platform mounds. The mound contained a number of stone box graves and log-lined tombs similar to those frequently found to the south in the Middle Cumberland Valley of Tennessee. [21] Shiloh Mound C: Shiloh Indian Mounds, Hardin County, Tennessee: 1000–1450 CE Middle Mississippian culture
The Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located in the village of Newtown in Hamilton County, [1] the mound is an oval approximately 110 feet (34 m) long and 90 feet (27 m) wide; its height is 11.3 feet (3.4 m). [3]: 641 It is believed to have been built by the Adena culture.
The Theodore B. Schaer Mound is a Native American mound in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio.Located southeast of the city of Canal Winchester in Fairfield County, [2] it is a large mound; its height is 13 feet (4.0 m), and it is 60 feet (18 m) in diameter.
Miamisburg Mound is a conical Native American Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. At 65 feet (20 m) tall and 800 feet (240 m) in circumference, it is the largest burial mound in the Eastern United States . Built atop a hill overlooking the Miami River , it is believed to have been built by the Adena Culture between 800BC and 100AD. [ 2 ]