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Multi-periodSite Name: Yorktown Enclosure Alternative Name: Muncie-Yorktown Enclosure, 12-Dl-39Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 4.778 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Muncie
Latitude: 40.180500N Longitude: 85.46939W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Earthwork Enclosure in Delaware County, Indiana.
This circular ditch and central earthwork mound was "discovered" in 2006 during surveys for a highway widening project. Assigned by archaeologists to the “New Castle Phase,” a time between 250 B.C. and A.D. 350 when relatively small circular earthworks and sometimes sizable burial mounds were built.
This phase of mound building is considered a local focus of the Hopewell Culture.
Such earthworks of ditches with the spoil thrown up to form a central mound were not uncommon in East Central Indiana when European settlement began in the 1820's. The Yorktown Enclosure may have been the earthwork cited in an 1881 county history that near Yorktown there was “one of those enclosures … of the class known as fortifications.” However, plowing, gravel mining, and other development have destroyed most of these sites. And the Yorktown example appears to have been forgotten until aerial photos revealed the obvious shape.
Other existing examples of these type of earthworks include Great Mound and Chrysler Enclosure.
Although Yorktown has had substantial modification and damage in the early 20th century, Indiana officials pledged to protect the site from the road project as examination pointed to a prehistoric structure. In 2015 the site was purchased by the Archaeological Conservancy.
Note: Conservancy buys prehistoric earthwork. See comment.
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