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Friday, March 4, 2016

Adams County, Ohio's Ancient Mounds and Earthworks



ADAMS COUNTY, OHIO'S ANCIENT MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS 



Ohio historic map shows the locations of the mounds and earthworks in Adams County, Ohio

     The great "Serpent Mound" of Adams County is in many respects the most remarkable of
  Ohio's prehistoric monuments, and ranks among the greatest of the world's so-called effigy 
mounds. It is located in northern Bratton township and occupies an eminence which 
temiinates in a sheer precipice towering nearly 100 feet above the bed of Brush Creek.
 The Serpent  proper is 1,254 feet in length, meandering along the convolutions,
 with a height of nearly 5 feet. There are three principal convolutions of the body, giving 
a very realistic  undulating effect, While the tail is coiled twice around. The head is
 somewhat coventional,being triangular in shape, with the anterior side of the triangle
 concaved to form the  mouth. Before the mouth is an Oval figure 120 feet long and 60
 feet wide which the serpent apparently is about to swallow. See all of Ohios largest burial 
mounds here https://youtu.be/H5NN9nNRQKg

Near Winchester, Ohio is a large burial mound that was once part of an
earthwork   complex that included three circular works, each 150 feet in
 diameter.

Adams county is rich in mounds and earthworks of the aboriginal peoples of Ohio, 
particularly along Brush creek and its tributaries and along the Ohio river. Several 
pictographs,    mostly in the form of human footprints cut in the exposed rock surfaces, 
are to be seen along the Ohio river, near the mouth of Stout's run, in Green township. 

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Large Stone Alter Reported Near Ohio's Famous Serpent Mound

Large Stone Alter Reported Near Ohio's Famous Serpent Mound




Newark Daily Advocate  Newark, Ohio September 16, 1889


INDIAN ALTAR At Ohio's Serpent Mound

Presented to the Natural History Society.


"Prof. Metz, who has for some time been exploring Indian mounds in Ohio, associated with Prof. Putnam, of Harvard College, has sent to the Cincinnati Natural History Society word that he has discovered a well preserved Indian altar weighing several tons, used for sacrificial worship, and offering it to the Society. The altar is on the banks of the Little Miami not far from the Great Serpent mound, and  a member of the Society goes up to take a photograph of it, and make arrangements for its transportation to the Society's rooms on Broadway.The discovery of similar altars in various portions of the Ohio Valley would seem to to the archaeologist that the mound builders were fire worshippers, and possibly offered up human beings as sacrifices to their gods.


Serpent links from “Mound builders”

Ohio's Serpent Mound Visitors Guide

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2013/01/ohios-serpent-mound-visitors-guide.html

Origins of Ohio's Great Serpent Mound is in Scotland


Ohio's Great Serpent Mound Visitors Guide

Visual Tour of the Serpent Mounds in the Ohio Valley

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2012/12/visual-tour-of-serpent-mounds-in-ohio.html

Serpent Mound Discovered in Indiana


Serpent Effigy and Indian Fort Wisconsin

Possible Serpent Effigies in Waukesha County, Wisconsin

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2012/02/possible-serpent-effigies-in-waukesha.html



Serpent Mound and Burial Mounds in Chicago, Illinois
http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2012/02/indian-burial-mounds-north-of-chicago.html



Adena Serpentine Enclosure in Hamilton County, Ohio

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2011/11/adena-serpentine-enclosure-in-hamilton.html



Ohio Mounds: Adena Hilltop Serpentine Enclosure in Hamilton County

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2011/11/ohio-mounds-adena-hilltop-serpentine.html



Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio and its Ancient Symbolism

http://moundbuilder.blogspot.com/2011/09/serpent-mound-in-peebles-ohio-ans-its.html