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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 ...
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 ...
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.
One year ago, Ohio joined some elite company. On Sept. 19, 2023, the eight Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks sites in Licking, Ross and Warren counties were inscribed to the United Nations ...
Official Highway Map 2003. Lebanon, Ohio: The Office, 2003. Bradley Thomas Lepper (2005). Ohio Archaeology. Orange Frazer Press. ISBN 1-882203-39-9; Robert P. Connolly and Bradley T. Lepper "The Fort Ancient Earthworks: Prehistoric Lifeways of the Hopewell Culture in Southwestern Ohio" Ohio Historical Society Press. (2004). ISBN 978-0877580294
The Marietta Earthworks is an archaeological site located at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio Rivers in Washington County, Ohio, United States. Most of this Hopewellian complex of earthworks is now covered by the modern city of Marietta. Archaeologists have dated the ceremonial site's construction to approximately 100 BCE to 500 CE.
The East Fork Earthwork is a Native American Earthwork and is attributed to the Middle woodland Hopewell culture, from about 100 BC to 500 AD. Its location is on the east fork of the Little Miami River in Clermont County, Ohio. The "Hanukkiah" mound has been described as having a 9-branched section resembling a menorah, surrounded by an oil lamp.
The Hopeton Earthworks are an Ohio Hopewell culture archaeological site consisting of mounds and earthwork enclosures. It is located on the eastern bank of the Scioto River just north of Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio , about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the Mound City Group and Shriver Circle on a terrace of the Scioto River.