Germantown, Ohio Serpentine Earthen Hopewell Enclosure

Germantown, Ohio Serpentine Earthen Enclosure

The serpentine gateway at Spruce Hill was duplicated at several hilltop ceremonial centers, including the work at Germantown, Ohio.

Serpentine gateway of the Germantown hilltop earthwork is very similar to the Spruce Hill gateway. The approaches to this earthwork looked to be man made and undulated like a serpent.

Parts of the original wall that skirts the bluff are still visible in the winter months.

Montgomery County, Ohio Indian Burial Mounds and Earthworks List

Montgomery County, Ohio, Indian Burial Mounds and Earthworks List 

Nest of flint implements, found two miles west of Centreville. 
Described by S. H. Binkley, Am. Antiq., Vol. III., (1881), p. 144. 

Earthworks on the east bank of the Great Miami river, three 
miles below Dayton. Described and figured, Anc. Mon., pp. 23-24, 
PI. viii, No. 4. 

Small stone mound near Alexandersville. Opened, described, 
and contents noted at length by S. H. Binkley, Am. Antiq. Vol. Ill, 
(1881), pp. 325-328. Young Mineralogist and Antiquarian, April, 
1885, pp. 79-80. 

Enclosure, partly of stone, on the bluff, two miles south of Day- 
ton. Described by S. H. Binkley, Am. Antiq. Vol. VII (1885), 
p. 295. (Possibly the same as mentioned in Anc. Mon., pp. 23-24.) 

Group of ancient works consisting of square, circles, and 
mounds, near Alexandersville and six miles below Dayton. De- 
scribed and figured, Anc. Mon., pp. 82-83, PI. xxix. No. 1. S. H. 
Binkley, Am. Antiq., Vol. Ill (1881), pp. 192-193 and 325-328. 
Young Mineralogist and Antiquarian, April, 1885, pp. 79-80. 

The great mound at Miamisburg. Western Gazetteer (1847), 
p. 295. Howe's Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847), p. 375. Anc. Mon. (1848), 
p. 5, fig. 1. Ohio Centen. Rep. (1877), PI. ii. MacLean's "Mound 
Builders," (1879), pp. 59-60, fig. 1. 

Ancient manufacturing village on the farm of M. T. Dodds, near 
West Carrollton. Described by S. H. Binkley, Am. Antiq., Vol. 
I (1879), pp. 256-258. 

Aboriginal cemetery on the bank of the Miami river, close to 
Dayton. Full description of the explorations by Aug. A. Foerste, 
Sm. Rep., 1883, pp. 838-844. Also noticed by S. H. Binkley, Am. 
Antiq., Vol. VII (1885), pp. 295-296. 

Ohio Mounds: Earthwork in Montgomery County, Ohio

Earthwork in Montgomery County, Ohio

EXPLORE ANCIENT OHIO

      This work resembles one already described, No. 2 of this Plate. It is situated on the bank of the Great Miami river, three miles below Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio. The side of the hill towards the river is very steep, rising to the height of one hundred and sixty feet. The remaining sides are less abrupt. Upon the south is the principal gateway, and here the declivity is gentle. This gateway is covered upon the interior by a ditch, c c, twenty feet wide, and seven hundred feet long. At d d d are dug holes, from which it is apparent a portion of the earth composing the embankments was taken. At b is a natural depression forty feet deep, and covering not far from one and a half acres. At the northern slope of the narrow ridge which intersects the work, and within the line of the embankment of which it forms a part, is a small mound. From its top a full view of the surrounding country, for a long distance up and down the river, may be obtained. A terrace, apparently artificial, skirts the north-west side of the hill, thirty feet below the embankment. As remarked in a former instance, this terrace may be natural; it has, however, all the regularity of a work of art.