tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73164483881836706182024-03-15T18:09:22.958-07:00Mound Buildersmound builders definition is member of a prehistoric American Indian people whose extensive earthworks are found from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi River valley to the Gulf of MexicoGus Faqirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02635809850335296285noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316448388183670618.post-90293679863181020122016-10-04T10:41:00.003-07:002022-05-22T14:59:57.387-07:00Hopewell Sioux Seip Earthworks and Burial Mounds<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Seip mound was mowed by the OHS showing the dimensions of the earthworks that surrounded two large Hopewell Sioux burial mounds in the interior.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><b>Seip Mound</b> is one of the largest earthen mounds built by the Hopewell
culture (A.D. 1–400) of precontact American Indian people. It is 240
feet long, 160 feet wide, and 30 feet high. Originally, this mound was
surrounded by a large, semi-circular enclosure that was connected to
smaller circular and square enclosures. In all, the earthworks enclosed
120 acres with 10,500 feet of embankment walls. The walls were up to ten
feet in height.</p>
<p>The Ohio History Connection excavated Seip Mound between 1925 and
1928. The excavation team discovered more than one hundred burials
associated with a variety of artifacts crafted from exotic raw materials
such as copper and mica. At the conclusion of the study, the mound was
restored to its original dimensions.</p>
<p>Between 1906 and 1909, the Ohio History Connection explored a smaller
structure, composed of three connected mounds, located a short distance
to the east of the large Seip Mound. This mound also was called "Seip
Mound," but to avoid confusion it is now referred to as the Seip
Conjoined Mound. Sometimes the larger Seip Mound is called the
Seip-Pricer Mound.</p>
<p>Seip Mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The
Ohio History Connection owns the central section of the earthworks
complex including the restored mound, the remnants of the conjoined
mound, and major portions of the circular and square enclosures. The
National Park Service owns the surrounding property, including the
remaining portions of the enclosure. Seip Mound is located 14 miles
southwest of Chillicothe, Ohio in Ross County and is open to visitation
throughout the year.</p> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316448388183670618.post-68791340640929250062015-05-02T10:50:00.003-07:002022-05-22T15:02:02.852-07:00Adena Burial Mound and Sun Temple Discovered in Ashland, Kentucky<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Burial mound and Sun Temple are visible in this photo. The burial mound is now being conserved, but their was no mention of the earthwork.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p>The Adena Mound was located about one and a half miles northwest of
Chillicothe, Ohio, in Ross County. Ohio Governor Thomas Worthington
chose this location in the Scioto River Valley to build his home,
completed in 1807, naming his estate “Adena,” which Worthington’s diary
notes comes from a Hebrew name that “was given to places for the
delightfulness of their situations.” The Adena culture (800 B.C. to A.D.
100), an archaeological culture referring to a culture of pre-contact
American Indian peoples who produced cultural artifacts during this
time, is named after the Adena Mound. Adena peoples thrived in
southeastern Indiana, southwestern Pennsylvania, and most prominently in
the Scioto River and Hocking Valleys in southern Ohio and the Kanawha
Valley near Charleston, West Virginia.</p>
<p>In 1901, William C. Mills, then Curator of Archaeology at the Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History
Connection), excavated the Adena Mound. Although today we would regard
the methods used by Mills in the excavation of the Adena Mound as crude
or even alarming, at the time Mills was conducting the work, they were
considered to be state of the art. The Ohio History Connection holds all
excavated objects from the Adena Mound, and the human remains are at
the Smithsonian.</p>
<p>Based on 20th century archaeological investigations, it appears that
Adena burial practices varied, as some individuals were cremated while
others were not, and some were buried with important cultural objects,
and others were not. The quality and quantity of funerary objects
included in a burial is believed to be indicative of that person’s
importance to the community or to their family. Some individuals were
not buried in mounds at all, which highlights the purposeful selection
of those to be buried in mounds. Perhaps these were warriors, beloved
community leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, or noted
artisans.</p>
<p>The Adena used their burial mounds many times, perhaps over the
course of several generations. The Adena Mound was constructed in two
phases during different time periods. Surrounded by a circular earthen
embankment and ditch, the mound was 26 feet tall with a circumference of
445 feet and a diameter of 90 feet. It was constructed of dark sand
probably extracted from a local lake called Lake Ellesmere. It contained
23 human burials. During the second phase of construction, the Adena
people enlarged the base of the mound by adding more earth on the north
side, extending the base by 50 feet, and interred thirteen more
individuals. Individuals buried in both phases of the mound were adorned
with similar objects, such as copper bracelets and rings, slate
gorgets, spear points, and many bone and shell beads. However, the
earlier burials contained many more funerary objects than the later. The
most significant artifact excavated from the mound was what we today
call the Adena Pipe, a tubular smoking pipe carved from catlinite, or
pipestone, in the shape of a man wearing a decorated loincloth, feather
bustle, and ear spools. <a href="https://hendrayulianto.com/">pakar seo</a><br /></p>
<p>Where the Adena mound once stood, which is now covered by an active
road, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5,
1975. Although the archaeological methods employed by Mills destroyed an
important funerary monument, and current protections for burial sites
would likely prohibit the excavation of the mound today, Mills’
excavation provided important insights into the cultural practices of
the Adena culture and revealed many exceptional cultural objects. Since
the enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
Act (NAGPRA) in 1990, museums and cultural institutions are required by
law to consult with Federally-recognized American Indian nations across
the United States for the return of human remains, funerary objects,
sacred objects, and other culturally significant objects to the native
nations or people to whom they belong.</p> </div>
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Isabel Wassons original drawing of the Serpent Mound in Thatcher Woods from the 1930s. According to Native American traditions, this mound was constructed by the Winnebago Indians.
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According to Jim Hodnapp, one of the founders of the Thatcher Woods Restoration Project the serpent mound is about 800 years old. Hodnapp described the serpent has with a huge egg within the mouth of the enormous snake.</div>
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Like the mound in Ohio a large fire pit was found within the egg. Hodnapp also pointed out that the serpent predates the Potawatomie Indians by hundreds of years.</div>
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The Serpent mound was first discovered by geologists Isabel Wasson in the 1930s and verified by anthropologists from the University of Chicago.</div>
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Map of the Mound City, Mound and Earthwork Complex</div>
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Excavation of one of the mounds revealed a skeleton that rested on a bed of mica tablets.</div>
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Another one of the burial mounds at Mound City being hacked into by the Ohio Historical Society</div>
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Severla Pipes that were removed from the burial mounds. Many of the artifacts from Mound City were sold to museums in England.</div>
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Mound City was only partially restored by the Ohio Historical Society. The earthen wall that surrounded the burial mounds is only a slight burm of earth. None of the burial mounds were restored to their orignal height and size.
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The Adena mound, so named by Governor Worthington, and
owned by his estate until a few years ago, was thoroughly exam-
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under the direction of its curator during the summer of 1901.
The mound is located on miles from the northwestern part of
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rectly to the north, the noted Mound City so named by Squier
and Davis, and examined by them in 1846; looking to the south
the Chillicothe group of mounds could be seen, which were ex-
amined by Fowke, Moorehead and others ; directly to the east
could be seen the Scioto River, and to the west is the large hill
upon which is located tlie mansion called Adena, which was the
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The destruction has begun of one of Ohio's largest Adena burial mounds.
Near the mound, and at the foot of this hill, is Lake Ellensmere, which played a very important part in the construction of this mound. In 1798, when Governor
Worthington came to Ohio, he purchased the land upon which
this mound was located, and it has since been owned by the heirs
until a few years ago, when it was sold to Mr. Joseph Froehlich,
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In the course of time the present owner found that it
was quite an expense to keep this mound in a good condition,
and as it occupied a large tract of fine alluvial bottom land, which
was valuable for agricultural purposes, he decided upon its com-
plete removal. On the 21st of June a contract was entered into with
Mr. Froehlich to remove this mound, the greater part of the soil
of which it was composed to be placed in a cut made by the B. &
O. Railroad, which is perhaps fifty yards away. The mound, at
the time work began, was 26 feet high measuring from the south
side, 26 feet 9 inches measuring from the north side, with a cir-
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Coming down to a smaller scope of territory, can it be shown that in the case of any one state the early Indian mound builders occupied the portions most heavily populated today? It has been said that, in Ohio, four counties contain evidence of having been the scenes of special activity on the part of the earliest inhabitants: Butler, Licking, Ross, and Franklin.</div>
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These are interior counties (at a distance from the Ohio and Lake Erie) and, of the remaining sixty-three interior counties in the state, only seven exceeded these four in population in 1880—when the cities had not so largely robbed the country districts of their population as now. Thus the aborigines seem to have been busiest where we have been busiest in the last half of the nineteenth century.</div>
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Historic Map of Miami County, Indiana showing the former locations of Indian burial mounds in the County. The remaining mound is the largest burial mound in Northern Indiana. It is not listed as a historic site nor preserved from excavations. Similar mounds in this area contained single hole pendants, bone awls and other artifacts from the Maritime Archaic. The early Iroquois can be associated with the Meadowood and Point Peninsula that are found from the lower Great Lakes to the eastern extent of the St. Lawrence River.
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Oblong burial mound located in Miami County, Indiana. The mound sits on what appears to be an artificial circular elevation. Locals have called this the "Top Hat Mound" because of the uniqueness of this site. The exact location of the mound was not divulged in the "Travel Guide" because the owner does not wish archaeologists to excavate and destroy the mound.</div>
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The Moundsville Prison in West Virginia is one of the most haunted places in America, Why? It is so surprising to see teams of paranormal investigators on television go to this site and completely ignore the 70 foot burial mound outside the prison gates.
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The mound and earthwork complex was built on the gateway to the Nephilim giants empire that ran the extent of the Ohio River. Stone towers once flanked each side of the river to let those traveling down the Ohio that they were entering another land.
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This map shows the burial mound complex along with works on the adjoining bluffs. The two points of the bluff that are marked as 'lookouts" were stone towers that would have been visible to those traveling down the Ohio River.
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The bluffs in the distance were the location of burial mounds and earthworks that overlooked the mound complex where the Moundsville West Virginia Prison now stands.
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The Grave Creek burial mound was the largest constructed in the Ohio Valley. What is a burial mound? Mounds were constructed to connect the living with the dead, they were portals to the afterlife. This is why the prison is haunted, the gate has been open for 2000 years!
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Who was buried in the tomb?
The Grave Creek Mound was constructed to entomb a giant King and Queen
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One of the most interesting of the five state parks is Mound Park, at Moundsville from which that city derived its name. Probably no other relic of pre-historic origin has attracted as wide study among archaeologists as the Grave Creeks mound which has given up skeletons of the ancients who constructed it.
Aside from the mammoth tumulus, itself 69 feet high and 900 feet in circumference, there were originally no fewer than seven mounds situated in the broad plain at the point.</div>
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None was nearly equal to the one now standing, and the locations of most of the smaller ones are now lost to all excepting a few.
Archaeologists investigating the mound some years ago dug out a skeleton said to be that of a female because of the formation of the bones. The skeleton was seven feet four inches tall and the jawbone would easily fit over the face of a man weighing 160 pounds.</div>
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That the women of that ancient day were not unlike the woman of today in their liking for finery was evidenced by the articles that were found beside the skeleton of what centuries ago was a “flapper.” Seventeen hundred ivory beads, 500 seashells of an involute species and five copper bracelets were found in the vault. The beads and shells were about the neck and breast of the skeleton while the bracelets were upon the arms.
There was also taken from the mound the skeleton of a man eight feet tall.
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Who was this ancient Queen buried in the mound?
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This tablet that was written in ancient Hebrew proclaims this grave to be that of the Queen of the mound builders. While archaeologists would argue against this theory (while providing no theories of their own) there are giants tombs in great numbers around the Moundsville prison and mound site.
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Friendly W. Va., Dec 2-Prof E. L. Lively and J.L Williamson have made an examination of the giant skeletons found by children playing near that town. The femur and vertebrae were found to be in remarkable state of preservation and showed the persons to be of enormous stature.
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Workmen last Tuesday, while grading for the Fairmont & Wyatt railroad on the B. W. Shian farm near Pine Bluff, Marion county, unearthed the skeleton of what appears to be a giant of olden times. The skeleton was found in the mound opposite the residence of B. W. Bogges. The skull and several of thre large bones were in a good state of preservation. The skull being something near the size of a two-gallon bucket, with the low forehead and a long under-jaw.</div>
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Huntington, W. Va., June 22-The municipal authorities of Central City, four miles west of here, three weeks ago ordered the removal of a prehistoric mound from Thirteenth Street. To-day twelve feet above the base of the mound a gigantic human skeleton was discovered. It is almost seven feet in length, and of massive proportions.</div>
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Shawnee Indian stone covered burial mound within the walls of Fort Ancient, Ohio. Universities continue to destroy these burial mounds by not recognizing the Shawnee as their builders and circumventing the Native American Graves Protection Act of 1993</div>
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In order to state clearly the argument based upon these works it is necessary to present a brief explanation.
There are several forms and varieties of Indiana stone graves or cists found in the mound builders area, some being of cobble stones, others of slabs; some round, others polygonal; some dome-shaped, others square, and others box shaped, or parallelograms. Reference is made at present only to the last mentioned—the box shaped type, made of stone slabs. If the evidence shows that this variety is found only in certain districts, pertains to a certain class of works, and is usually accompanied by certain types of art, we are warranted in using it as an ethnic characteristic, or as indicating the presence of particular tribes.</div>
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If it can be shown that graves of this form are found in mounds attributed to the so- called mound-builders, and that certain tribes of Indians of historic times were also accustomed to bury in them, we are warranted in assuming that there was a continuity of custom from the mound-building age to historic times, or that graves found in the mounds are probably attributable to the same people (or allied tribes) found using them at a later date. This conclusion will be strengthened by finding that certain peculiar types of art are limited to the regions where these graves exist, and are found almost exclusively in connection with them.</div>
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These graves, as is well known, are formed of rough and unhewn slabs or flat pieces of stone, thus: First, in a pit some 2 or 3 feet deep and of the desired dimensions, dug for the purpose, a layer of stone is placed to form the floor; next, similar pieces are set on edge to form the sides and ends, over which other slabs are laid flat, forming the covering, the whole when finished making a rude, box-shaped coffin or sepulcher. Sometimes one or more of the six faces are wanting; occasionally the bottom consists of a layer of water-worn bowlders; sometimes the top is not a single layer of slabs, but other pieces are laid over the joints, and sometimes they are placed shingle-fashion. These graves vary in length from 14 inches to 8 feet, and in width from 9 inches to 3 feet.</div>
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It is not an unusual thing to find a mound containing a number of those cists arranged in two, three, or more tiers. As a general rule, those not in mounds are near the surface of the ground, and in some instances even projecting above it. It is probable that no one who has examined them has failed to note their strong resemblance to the European mode of burial. Even Dr. Joseph Jones, who attributes them to some "ancient race," was forcibly reminded of this resemblance, as he remarks:</div>
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In looking at the rude stone coffins of Tennessee, I have again and again been impressed with the idea that in some former age this ancient race must have come in contact with Europeans and derived this mode of burial from them. [Footnote: Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee, pp. 34,35]</div>
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The presence of stone graves of the type under consideration in the vicinity of the site of some of the "over hill towns" of the Cherokees on the Little Tennessee River, presented a difficulty in the way of the theory here advanced, as it is well known that the Cherokees and Shawnees were inveterate enemies from time immemorial. But by referring to Schoolcraft's History of the Indians the following statement solves the riddle and confirms the theory:</div>
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A discontented portion of the Shawnee tribe from Virginia broke off from the nation, which removed to the Scioto country, in Ohio, about the year 1730, and formed a town known by the name of Lulbegrud, in what in now Clark County [Kentucky], about 30 miles east of this place [Lexington]. This tribe left this country about 1730 and went to East Tennessee, to the Cherokee Nation. [Footnote: Vol. 1, p. 301.]</div>
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Some years ago Mr. George E. Sellers discovered near the salt spring in Gallatin County, Ill., on the Saline River, fragments of clay vessels of unusually large size, which excited much interest in the minds of antiquarians, not only because of the size of the vessels indicated by the fragments, but because they appeared to have been used by some prehistoric people in the manufacture of salt and because they bore impressions made by some textile fabric. In the same immediate locality were also discovered a number of box-shaped stone graves. That the latter were the work of the people who made the pottery Mr. Sellers demonstrated by finding that many of the graves were lined at the bottom with fragments of these large clay "salt pans." [Footnote: Popular Science Monthly, vol. II, 1877, pp. 573-584.]</div>
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Mention of this pottery had been made long previously by J. M.</div>
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Peck in his "Gazetteer of Illinois." [Footnote: 1834, p. 52.]</div>
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He remarks that "about the Gallatin and Big Muddy Salines large fragments of earthenware are very frequently found under the surface of the earth. They appear to have been portions of large kettles used, probably, by the natives for obtaining salt."</div>
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The settlement of the Shawnees at Shawneetown, on the Ohio River, in Gallatin County, in comparatively modern times, is attested not only by history but by the name by which the town is still known. There is evidence on record that there was an older Shawneetown located at the very point where this "salt-kettle" pottery and these stone graves were found. This is mentioned in the American State Papers [Footnote: Public Lands, Class VIII, vol.2, p. 103, Gales and Seaton ed.] in the report relating to the famous claim of the Illinois and Wabash Land Companies. The deed presented was dated July 20, 1773, and recorded at Kaskaskia, September 2, 1773. In this mention is made of the "ancient Shawnee town" on Saline Creek, the exact locality of the stone graves and suit-kettle pottery. The modern Indian village at Shawneetown on the Ohio River had not then come into existence, and was but in its prime in 1806, when visited by Thomas Ashe. [Footnote: Travels in America, 1808, p. 265.]</div>
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As proof that the people of this tribe were in the habit of making salt the following evidence is presented: Collins, in his "History of Kentucky", [Footnote: Vol. 2, p. 55.] gives an account of the capture and adventures of Mrs. Mary Ingals, the first white woman known to have visited Kentucky. In this narrative occurs the following statement:
The first white woman in Kentucky was Mrs. Mary Ingals, nee Draper, who, in 1756 with her two little boys, her sister-in-law, Mrs. Draper, and others was taken prisoner by the Shawnee Indians, from her home on the top of the great Allegheny ridge, is now Montgomery County, W. Va. The captives were taken down the Kanawha, to the salt region, and, after a few days spent in making salt, to the Indian village at the mouth of Scioto River.</div>
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By the treaty of Fort Wayne, June 7, 1803, between the Delawares, Shawnees, and other tribes and the United States, it was agreed that in consideration of the relinquishment of title to "the great salt spring upon the Saline Creek, which falls into the Ohio below the mouth of the Wabash, with a quantity of laud surrounding it, not exceeding 4 miles square," the United States should deliver "yearly, and every year for the use of said Indians, a quantity of salt not exceeding 150 bushels." [Footnote: Treaties of United States with Indian tribes, p. 97.]</div>
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Another very significant fact in this connection is that the fragments of large earthen vessels similar in character to those found in Gallatin County, Ill., have also been found in connection with the stone graves of the Cumberland Valley, and, furthermore, the impressions made by the textile fabrics show the same stitches as do the former. Another place where pottery of the same kind has been found is about the salt-lick near Saint Genevieve, Mo., a section inhabited for a time by Shawnees and Delawares. [Footnote: C.C. Royce in American Antiquarian, vol. 3, 1881, pp. 188, 189.]</div>
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Stone graves have been found in Washington County, Md. [Footnote: Smithsonian Report for 1882 (1884), p. 797.] History informs us that there were two Shawnee settlements in this region, one in the adjoining county of Maryland (Allegany), and another in the neighborhood of Winchester, Va. [Footnote: C. C. Royce in American Antiquarian, vol. 3, 1881, p. 186. Virginia State Papers, 1. p. 63.]</div>
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Mr. W. M. Taylor [Footnote: Smithsonian Report for 1877, p. 307. Mentions only known instance of mound with Delaware Village.] mentions some stone graves of the type under consideration as found on the Mahoning River, in Pennsylvania. An important item in this connection is that these graves were in a mound. He describes the mound as 35 feet in diameter and 5 feet high, having on one side a projection 35 feet long of the same height as the mound. Near by a cache was discovered containing twenty one iron implements, such as axes, hatchets, tomahawks, hoes, and wedges. He adds the significant statement that near the mound once stood the Indian (Delaware) village of Kush-kush-kee.</div>
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Graves of the same type have been discovered in Lee County, Va. [Footnote: Eleventh Report of the Peabody Museum, 1878, p. 208.] Others have been found in a mound on the Tennessee side, near the southern boundary of Scott County, Va. Allusion has already been made to the occasional presence of the Shawnees in this region. In the map of North America by John Senex, Chaonanon villages are indicated in this particular section.
The presence of these graves in any part of Ohio can easily be accounted for on the theory advanced, by the well-known fact that both Shawnees and Delawares were located at various points in the region, and during the wars in which they were engaged were moving about from place to place; but the mention of a few coincidences may not be out of place.</div>
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In the American Antiquarian for July, 1881, is the description of one of these cists found in a mound in the eastern part of Montgomery County. Mr. Royce, in the article already referred to, states that there was a Shawnee village 3 miles north of Xenia, in the adjoining county, on Mad River, which flows into the Miami a short distance above the location of the mound.</div>
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Stone graves have been found in great numbers at various points along the Ohio from Portsmouth to Ripley, a region known to have been occupied at various times by the Shawnees.
Similar graves have been discovered in Ashland County. [Footnote: Smithsonian Report for 1877, pp. 261-267.] These, as will be seen by reference to the same report (page 504), are precisely in the locality of the former Delaware villages.</div>
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The evidence is deemed sufficient to show that the Shawnees and Delawares were accustomed to bury in stone graves of the type under consideration, and to indicate that the graves found south of the Ohio are to be attributed to the former tribe and those north to both tribes.</div>
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As graves of this kind are common over the west side of southern Illinois, from the month of the Illinois to the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, attention is called to some evidence bearing on their origin.
Hunter, who traveled in the West, says that some of the Indians he met with during his captivity buried their dead in graves of this kind.</div>
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According to a statement made by Dr. Rau to Mr. C. C. Jones, and repeated to me personally, "it is a fact well remembered by many persons in this neighborhood [Monroe County, III.] that the Indians who inhabited this region during the early part of the present century (probably Kickapoos) buried their dead in stone coffins." [Footnote: Antiquities So. Indians, p. 220.]</div>
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Dr. Shoemaker, who resided on a farm near Columbia, in 1861, showed Dr. Rau, in one of his fields, the empty stone grave of an Indian who had been killed by one of his own tribe and interred there within the memory of some of the farmers of Monroe County. An old lady in Jackson County informed one of the Bureau assistants that she had seen an Indian buried in a grave of this kind.</div>
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It is doubtful whether Dr. Rau is correct in ascribing these graves to the Kickapoos, as their most southern locality appears to have been in the region of Sangamon County. [Footnote: Reynolds's Hist. Illinois, p. 20.] It is more probable they were made by the Kaskaskias, Tamaroas, and Cahokias. Be this as it may, it is evident that they are due to some of the tribes of this section known as Illinois Indians, pertaining to the same branch of the Algonquin family as the Shawnees and Delawares.</div>
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That the stone graves of southern Illinois were made by the same people who built those of the Cumberland Valley, or closely allied tribes, is indicated not only by the character of the graves but by other very close and even remarkable resemblances in the construction and contents as well as in the form and size of the mounds; the presence of hut-rings in both localities, and the arrangement of the groups.
Taking all the corroborating facts together there are reasonable grounds for concluding that graves of the type now under consideration, although found in widely-separated localities, are attributable to the Shawnee Indians and their congeners, the Delawares and Illinois, and that those south of the Ohio are due entirely to the first named tribe. That they are the works of Indians must be admitted by all who are willing to be convinced by evidence.</div>
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The fact that in most cases (except when due to the Delawares, who are not known to have been mound-builders) the graves are connected with mounds, and in many instances are in mounds, sometimes in two, three, and even four tiers deep, proves beyond a doubt that the authors of these graves were mound-builders.</div>
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The importance and bearing of this evidence does not stop with what has been stated, for it is so interlocked with other facts relating to the works of the "veritable mound-builders" as to leave no hiatus into which the theory of a lost race or a "Toltec occupation" can possibly be thrust. It forms an unbroken chain connecting the mound-builders and historical Indians which no sophistry or reasoning can break. Not only are these graves found in mounds of considerable size, but they are also connected with one of the most noted groups in the United States, namely, the one on Colonel Tumlin's place, near Cartersville, Ga., known as the Etowah mounds, of which a full description will be found in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.</div>
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In the smallest of the three large mounds of this group were found stone graves of precisely the type attributable, when found south of the Ohio, to the Shawnees. They were not in a situation where they could be ascribed to intrusive burials, but in the bottom layer of a comparatively large mound with a thick and undisturbed layer of hard-packed clay above them. It is also worthy of notice that the locality is intermediate between the principal seat of the Shawnees in the Cumberland Valley, and their extreme eastern outposts in northeastern Georgia, where both tradition and stone graves indicate their settlement. The tradition regarding this settlement has been given elsewhere. [Footnote: Am. Antiq, vol. 7, 1885, p. 133]</div>
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In these graves were found the remarkable figured copper plates and certain engraved shells, of which mention has been made by Mr. W. H. Holmes [Footnote: Science, vol. 3, 1884, pp. 436-438.] and by myself [Footnote: Ibid., pp. 779-785.] in Science. It is a singular corroboration of the theory here advanced that the only other similar copper plates were found at Lebanon, Tenn., by Prof. F. W. Putnam; in a stone grave in a mound at Mill Creek, southern Illinois, by Mr. Earle; in a stone grave in Jackson County, Ill., by Mr. Thing; in a mound of Madison County, Ill., by Mr. H. R. Howland; and in a small mound at Peoria, Ill., by Maj. J. W. Powell. All, except the specimens found by Professor Putnam and Mr. Howland, were secured by the Bureau of Ethnology, and are now in the National Museum.</div>
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There can be but little doubt that the specimens obtained from simple stone graves by Professor Putnam and Mr. Thing are to be attributed to Indian burials, but surely not to Indian manufacture.
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It may be stated here that in the report relating to the claim of the Wabash Land Company [Footnote: American State Papers, Land Affairs, Appendix, p. 20.] is a statement giving a list of articles furnished the Indians, among which we notice nine ear wheels. These we suppose to be the same as the spool shaped ear ornaments found in stone graves and elsewhere.</div>
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The engraved shells also form a link which not only connects the mound-builders with historic times but corroborates the view advanced in regard to the Shawnees, and indicates also that the Cherokees were mound-builders. But before introducing this we will give the reasons for believing that the mounds of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina are due to the last-named tribe.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7316448388183670618.post-72598460083942510282012-04-02T10:32:00.000-07:002020-05-02T10:37:39.740-07:00Newark, Ohio Large Burial Mounds<div style="text-align: justify;">
Visiting Newark Ohio earthworks can be enhanced by traveling a few mile south to visit some of the largest burial mounds in Ohio.
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A large burial mound is located near Jacksontown, Ohio a few miles south of the Newark Earthworks. From this mound you would have been able to see the large 50 foot stone mound that was located off I-70. The destruction of this stone mound by the city of Columbus is one of the greatest tragedies in American history.
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To the south of Jacksontown and Newark, Ohio is this giant sized effigy mound that is supposed to be a bear, according to a local historian who took us to the site. The mound, like most in Ohio has been heavily damaged by the Ohio Historical Society.
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From the last mound, and Glenford Fort this large mound can be seen in the horizon, capping this large hill. It has a sub conical shape that is due to the destruction done by the Ohio Historical Society. The mounds along with the Glenford Fort all within a half hour of the Newark earthworks and will give the traveler a true sense in the concentration of the large mounds and earthworks that were once in this part of the state of Ohio.</div>
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Mound on Corn Island, near Troy. Opened. Described and
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Earthworks and mounds in Concord and Newton townships.
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Embankment of earth and stone on the left bank of the Great
Miami, two miles and a half above the town of Piqua. Described
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Drake, View of Cin. Described and figured by John P. Rogan,
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Below the preceding a group of works (circles, ellipses, etc),
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Mounds and earthworks in Washington and Spring Creek
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Tablets of burnt clay found on farm of W. Morrow near Piqua.
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Graded way at Piqua. Described in Long's Sec. Expd., Vol.
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Adena or Beaker People Henge in England. A "henge" is defined by a circular earthwork with an outer wall and interior ditch that is usually breached by a gateway that is aligned to a solar event.</div>
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A 2500 year old earthwork called a henge that was an earthen temple dedicated to the Sun god has been located in Chillicothe, Ohio. Archaeologist at the Hopewell Culture National Park in Chillicothe were clueless of its existence, despite being literally in their back yard. <a href="https://bundalapak.com/">APK Penghasil Uang</a><br /></div>
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The henge in Chillicothe appears to be the standard size of this type that is 210 feet in diameter and 660 feet in circumference. The surrounding ditch would have been 30 feet wide. The best preserved of these henge types is at Mounds State Park.</div>
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This is the henge located at Mounds State Park in Anderson, Indiana. The henge at Chillicothe, Ohio is the same size. Note the burial mound in the center of the middle platform. At Mounds State Park this henge aligned with the adjoining works to align to the Summer and Winter Solstices. It was later destroyed by Indiana University archaeologists who were completely ignorant to its importance as a solar marker.</div>
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Aerial photo of the Adena Sun Temple Henge in Chillicothe, Ohio. It appears to be aligned to the Summer Solstice sunrise. Also note, the dot in the middle of the central platform shows that a burial mound was in the center. Another Henge was opposite this one, but is only faintly visible. What appears to be a sacred via is also visible extending from the north portion of the gateway to the henge.</div>
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Another Adena henge group is located in Cambridge City Indiana. It, like the Adena henge in Chillicothe, Ohio has been plowed for many years. This henge is the same size as Anderson and presumably Chillicothe.</div>
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Despite being plowed for years the Cambridge City, Indiana Adena henge is still visible in this field. It is presumed that the Adena Henge in Chllicothe will look very similar to this. </div>
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These are the top ten Indian mounds and earthworks that can still be visited in Indiana that were constructed by the Allegewi (Adena) and Hopewell (a confederation of Sioux, Iroquois Cherokee and Allegewi). Some of the mound sites in Northern Indiana could date as early as 1500 B.C. The mounds and earthworks in the central and southern part of Indiana were constructed from 500 B.C. - 500 A.D. There are close to 100 burial mound and earthworks sites that can still survive in Indiana, of these only 2 are recognized as "Historic Sites."One of which is, Mounds State Park that continues to be excavated and destroyed by university archaeologist. If you're a tourist in Indiana, all of these sites are in jeopardy of being destroyed.
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Mounds State Park, Henge Complex in Anderson Indiana<br />
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The burial mound in the center platform of the large henge marked the solstices for 2000 years before being destroyed by Indiana University archaeologists. A charge of a few dollars is required to enter Mounds State Park, but the tour of the mounds and earthworks is worth the price. Mounds State Park, despite the destruction by Indiana University archaeologists is one of the best preserved henge sites in the Ohio Valley. Mounds State Park, does not have all of the mounds and earthworks sites listed on their map. Discover the "lost" earthworks with "The Nephilim Chronicles: A Travel Guide to the Ancient Ruins in the Ohio Valley."</div>
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Largest Henge of the southern group at Mounds State Park. The undulations in the outer wall are symbolic of the serpent wrapped around the central circle that was symbolic of the sun. The earthwork complex was a combination of solar and Earth Mother worship. Before touring Mounds State Park, learning of the symbolism of the ancient earthworks and how they were dedicated to the Sun god and the Earth Mother will enhance your visit.
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Find out the directions to Mounds State Parks "Lost Henge" This is the site, park officials don't want you to know about.
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<b>2. Serpent Mound near Holton, Indiana
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Many people have toured to the famous serpent mound in Ohio, but did you know that Indiana has a serpent mound just as large? Above, an identical serpent mound as that in Indiana was mapped in Warren County, Ohio. If you are touring southeast Indiana, the serpent mound located near Holton, Indiana is a must see!
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Indiana's Serpent Mound undulated back and forth like the previous diagram. Despite the tens of thousands of people that visit Ohio Serpent mound, Indiana does not even recognize this ancient treasure as an historic spot.
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Traveling to Indianapolis? This historic site is an hour's drive. This ancient tourist treasure is not recognized as a historic site in Indiana, despite being constructed over 2000 years ago.
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The photo is a burial mound (#1 on map) in the distance and a the outer wall of thesmall henge ( #2 on map). This historic treasure has had a lot of damage done by Ball State University archaeologists, who have obliterated mound Number "1. A solar alignment of the mounds occurs every equinox. City officials have moved to not allow University archaeologist to continue to destroy this potential, popular tourist attraction.
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The wall of the Iroquois Fort can still be seen near Fort Wayne, Indiana. If you are a tourist in Fort Wayne, this site has not been opened to the public, yet.<br />
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Three of these horseshoe shaped fort were constructed by the early Iroquois along the Maumee from Fort Wayne to Toledo. One of Indiana's few Native American historic sites is not recognized, nor deemed worth saving.
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<b>5. An Iroquois Circular fort near Ashley, Indiana
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A circular Iroquois fortification is located near Ashley, Indiana. This potential tourist attraction is also not recognized by the State. This ancient site is on private property but could be opened as a tourist attraction in the future. </div>
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<b>6. Henge Complex near Cambridge City, Indiana
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Henge complex at Cambridge City, Indiana. The northern Henge was aligned to the summer solstice sunrise with the lower aligned to the equinox sunrise. One of Indiana's best historical sites. If you are looking for things to do Indianapolis, this site is only an hour away, but has not been opened to the public, yet.
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This Adena Henge constructed in 200 B.C. is the same size as the one in Anderson, Indiana. It is currently being plowed and slowly over time, destroyed.</div>
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<b>7. Large Henge in Strawtown, Indiana</b></div>
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HengeHenge, near Strawtown was constructed by the ancient Hopewell Confederacy. This henge was constructed by the Oto Sioux Indians about 2000 year ago.</div>
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<b>8. HengeHenge, near Yorktown, Indiana</b></div>
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Henge near Yorktown, Indiana on private land. The Henge site at Yorktown, Mounds State Park, New Castle and Cambridge City are all about 20 miles apart. </div>
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<b>9. Subterranean Oval Stone enclosure near LaFountain, Indiana</b></div>
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The purpose of this stone subterranean enclosure remains a mystery. It is located near the 1812 Mississenewa Battle Ground, but is much older than the short Miami Indian occupation of northern Indiana.
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A sacred stone bowl with a natural spring that flows into it along the Mississenwa River. This site is on public land near the subterranean stone work. </div>
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<b>10. Winchester, Indiana Earthwork</b></div>
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Winchester, Indiana work that measured 1320 X 1080 feet. Only a few remnants still exist of this possible tourist attraction.
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All sites are listed here along with another 75 in Indiana and a total of 222 burial mounds and earthworks in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan
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Serpent Mound and Burial Mounds in Chicago, Illinois
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The most southerly point on the west shore of Lake Michigan where traces of ancient labor can be found, is about four miles south of the “State line” between Wisconsin and Illinois. These works are doubtless burial-places, and consist of a series of round or conical mounds, nine in number, from three to five feet in height, and about thirty feet in diameter, arranged in a serpentine row along the crest of a ridge of sand, an ancient lake beach, which extends for many miles along the lake shore. (See Fig. 1.)</div>
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Also found in Chicago is this Serpent Mound located within a Park in the City. The location of this serpent mound is somewhere in Thatcher Park, but I have yet to investigate it to give an exact location.
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We first saw this beach in the road three miles north of Racine, and traced it at intervals into the State of Illinois. It has an elevation estimated at fifty feet above the present level of the lake, and at the mounds affords a good view of the country on both sides. It is here about half a mile distant from the lake. It consists of sand and gravel, and rests upon a bed of hard clay.</div>
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There is no doubt that this ridge extends south to the end of the lake, and is connected with the remarkable series of ridges described by Prof. Shepard.1 It is occupied by the main road from Milwaukee to Chicago, and is frequently so broad on the top as to afford room for buildings.</div>
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Map shows locations of trails and Indian Burial Mounds in the City of Chicago.</div>
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INDIAN MOUNDS AND EARTHWORKS</div>
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Historic map showing the locations of burial mounds and Earthworks in Hamilton County, Indiana</div>
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But Strawtown has an antiquity evidently higher than the days of the Delaware Indians. The mound builders have left their footprints in this vicinity by the numerous relics of the Stone Age that have been picked up by the present inhabitants. A little west of the present village there is a burial mound about six feet high; it has been plowed over for a number of years, so that not only its height has been reduced, but its base rendered so indistinct that its diameter can not be accurately measures; it is, however, between seventy and eighty feet. It was opened in 1882 by Judge Overman, of Tipton, and four skeletons were found lying on the original surface of the ground, with their heads together and their feet directed to the cardinal points of the compass.
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This type of burial was symbolic of the mound builders Sun god. This type of burial occurs frequently with the Adena and proto Iroquois and Sioux of the Ohio Valley, whom archaeologists call the Hopewell. This is consistent with reports from the excavations of this site by IPFW archaeologists who assigned this work to the Oto Sioux.
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At a distance of 150 yards southeast of this mound is a circular embankment, now about three feet high, and twelve feet on the base. It has a ditch on the outside, which evidently furnished a portion of the earth for the embankment. The diameter of the circle, measured from the bottom of the ditch on each side, is 315 feet. There is a doubt as to what period this work should be referred. A tradition among the “old settlers” claims that the remains of palisades that once formed a stockade, were standing on the embankment when the early immigrants settled here. This tradition is strengthened by the fact that in 1810 a stockade was built by the Delaware Indians somewhere near this spot, as a protection against their Miami neighbors north of White River. Moreover, it was not the custom of the mound builders to make a ditch on the outside of their embankments. On the other hand, the regularity of the work, and the perfect form of the circle, is hardly compatible with the idea that this is the work of modern savages. It is possible that the circle dates back to the period of the mound builders, and that the Delawares took advantage of it to build their stockade on, and made the ditch to strengthen their palisades. The ditch was been filled, and the embankment reduced much by cultivation.</div>
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Map showing the location of the henge at Strawtown. IPFW university determined that this site was constructed by the Early Native American Oto Sioux who psrt of the Hopewell Indian mound builders
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History of Hamilton County Indiana, 1915
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The work of the Mound Builders found in Hamilton county is not as extensive or varied in character as in other counties in our state, but nevertheless the Strawtown Mound is very interesting tot he residents of Hamilton county and in some ways is distinctive and different from mounds in general. The Strawtown Mound is situated on the Roy Castor farm in White River township in the southeast part of the northwest quarter of section 3, township 19 north, range 5 east, near the center of the section. In 1875 the state geologist, Professor E.T. Cox, made a visit to the mounds and gave the following description of his trip: “Through the kindness of General Moss and William M. Locke, I obtained the skull and ornaments for the state collection. I was taken by General Moss and Mr. Locke to Strawtown, seven miles from Noblesville, to see some prehistoric earth works. They are now in a cultivated field owned by J.R. Parker. The corn and weeds were so thick it was impossible to make an accurate or even satisfactory examination of the works. The main work is a circle about three hundred feet in diameter, thrown up in the center, but apparently level and surrounded by a ditch that Mr. Parker says was about six feet deep when he first saw it. Fifty yards to the south of the large circle is a lesser circle about fifty feet in diameter and now almost obliterated. The site of these works is on the second bottom of White River about a quarter of a mile from the bank and thirty feet above the overflow. Between the earth enclosures and the river there is a mound which commands an extensive view up and down White River. The large enclosure is one of the very few in the Mississippi Valley that has the ditch on the outside, and it therefore is worthy of more careful study.”
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The earthwork at Strawtown is best described as a 'Henge' that is defined as a circular earthwork with a outer wall and interior ditch with a gateway that is aligned to a solar event.
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Later, accurate measurements were made of the mound. It was found that the principle enclosure is situated about seven hundred feet west of the river on an elevated point of land extending in a northwesterly direction into the bend of White River. This elevated point of land overlooks a strip of low bottom land varying in width from four hundred feet on the east to three thousand feet on the west, with a similar view north and south. The principal mound is a circle with a diameter measuring two hundred eighty feet from side to side. From this point the outer slope to the middle of the ditch surrounding it is about twenty feet, the ditch originally having been about thirty feet wide and nine feet deep, the earth and gravel therefrom forming the mound in the center. Inside the enclosure the middle area was originally, no doubt, of equal elevation with the surface outside. There is very little doubt that the purpose of this mound was for defense, the ditch outside being designed to resist assault. From time to time various specimens of bones, pottery, flint, arrowheads, etc., have been found, though no thorough and systematic search has ever been made of the contents of the mound. In the spring of 1914 some men were plowing over that part of the field included in the ancient mound and they unearthed about two bushel baskets full of human bones. At various times in the past such discoveries had been made but this was the first disclosure of this sort for several years. The ditch surrounding the fort is becoming less and less distinct as the years go by, and though it still be plainly seen, in the course of a few more years the hand of Father Time probably will completely obliterate it.</div>
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Additional embankments can still be seen to the south of the earthwork that were not reported in the previous histories, nor found by university archaeologists.
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