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Submitted by AKFisher on Wednesday, 30 August 2023  Page Views: 451

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Stone Serpent Mound Alternative Name: Kentucky Stone Serpent Mound, 15Bd6
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Nearest Town: Catlettsburg, KY
Latitude: 38.353020N  Longitude: 82.600985W
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Stone Serpent Mound
Stone Serpent Mound submitted by AKFisher : The Stone Serpent Effigy Mound south of Catlettsburg, Kentucky. It was found and first mapped in the 1960s and sent to the National Register in 1974. It is 625 feet long and comprised of sandstone rocks and earth. It wasn't until the 1990s that archaeologists did extensive investigations of it and fully accepted it as an ancient Native American structure. Photo: Wiki commons, public domain. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Geoglyph in Great Lakes Midwest

Ohio's Serpent Mound is the most famous of American effigy mounds. However, it is not the only remaining serpent effigy. Stone Serpent Mound, one of three serpent stone effigies known in Kentucky, is now famous in archaeology but remains little-known to the public. The effigy was constructed on a steep hill adjacent to a modern oil refinery and appears to have been first officially reported in 1976. A large semi-circle of stone appears to represent an egg at the serpent's head. The stone forming the major portion of the snake is piled to a height of 12 feet. As the head and tail are reached, the height of the stone formation is 4 feet with a width of 5 feet. The exact length has not been reported. Archaeologists date the formation to as early as 1000 BCE, and to as recent as 1000 CE.[1]

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1. Description courtesy of Dr. Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016), pp 157.

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People of the StoneĀ 
peopleofthestone.com/mystery-stone-mounds<2>
JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20708318<4>

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