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<< Other Photo Pages >> Portsmouth Earthworks - Misc. Earthwork in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by AKFisher on Friday, 22 February 2013  Page Views: 7013

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Portsmouth Earthworks
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Portsmouth
Latitude: 38.743083N  Longitude: 82.97775W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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rrmoser visited on 12th May 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Only one horseshoe shaped mound remains in Portsmouth. Easy to visit and despite its modest size and location in a city park it still had a good ambience.

bat400 visited - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 5



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 5

Portsmouth Works
Portsmouth Works submitted by AKFisher : The Biggs Site located across the Ohio River in Kentucky, closeup of the interior mound & moat. It is still there and a portion of the Portsmouth Earthworks built starting around 500 BC. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mounds and earthworks in Scioto County, Ohio, and Greenup County, Kentucky. A group of earthworks near Portsmouth, Ohio, built by the Hopewell Culture People. The "works" included circles, squares, avenues and terraces. The complex was built on both sides of the Ohio River with connecting avenues implying a river crossing as part of a ceremonial activity.

The major parts of the complex are known as Group A (west of modern Portsmouth, in Kentucky,) Group B (now covered by modern Portsmouth,) and Group C (east of Portsmouth, near South Shore, Kentucky.) and Group D, also known as the Biggs Site (15GP8) in Greenup County, Kentucky.

Unfortunately, the majority of the structures of the complex have been destroyed by agricultural or city development during the past 150 years. Only a small portion of one mound remains publicly accessible in a Portsmouth city park.

Note: the location given is for the Group B portion of the complex. The Biggs Site was originally a concentric circular embankment and ditch surrounding a central conical burial mound with a causeway crossing the ring and ditch. It was part of a larger complex, the Portsmouth Earthworks located across the Ohio River, now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of Portsmouth, Ohio. The Biggs Site was surveyed and mapped by E. G. Squier in 1847 for inclusion in the seminal archaeological and anthrolopological work "Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley." They described the earthwork as being a causewayed embankment 5 feet (1.5 m) high by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide encircling a ditch 6 feet (1.8 m) deep and 25 feet (7.6 m) across. They encircled an area 90 feet (27 m) in diameter. In the center of the ditch was a conical tumulus 8 feet (2.4 m) high and 40 feet (12 m) in diameter.[3]. Source: Wikipedia.

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Portsmouth Earthworks
Portsmouth Earthworks submitted by AKFisher : Photo of the interior moat and remains of the central mound today. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portsmouth Earthworks
Portsmouth Earthworks submitted by AKFisher : Scale aerial illustration of the Portsmouth Earthworks. Wikicommons Herb Roe. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portsmouth Earthworks
Portsmouth Earthworks submitted by AKFisher : Wide angle photo of the Biggs Site today. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

Portsmouth Earthworks
Portsmouth Earthworks submitted by AKFisher : Mid-1800's illustration of the Biggs Site (Group D) in Kentucky across from Portsmouth, Ohio. Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016).  (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Portsmouth Works by davidmorgan on Saturday, 30 August 2014
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