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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Portsmouth EarthworksCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 2.077 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Portsmouth
Latitude: 38.743083N Longitude: 82.97775W
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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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
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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