<< Our Photo Pages >> Serpent Mound, Ohio - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Serpent Mound, Ohio Alternative Name: Great Serpent MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.937 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Village: Peebles
Latitude: 39.025000N Longitude: 83.428W
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 |
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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 |
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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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anarchivist visited on 5th Aug 2019 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
eforrest25 visited on 21st Aug 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 5 I visited this site back in 1993 or so. It is perhaps in better shape now than it was then. One addition to that time are markers for astronomical alignments that are based on the coils of the snake. Still very peaceful and worth the view.
mfrincu visited on 2nd Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Excellent preserved. The tall platform offers a great view of the mound except for the tail and part of the head. The alignments with the Sun and Moon are clearly marked. The museum offers a nice collection of books and souvenirs as well as a 20 minute movie.
Bandita visited on 1st Jan 1975 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Really well upkeep on grounds.
bat400 MelissaBWrite sitedowser Ahdzib have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 4.75
Some interprate the snake as devouring an egg. Others say the oval is the head of the snake itself, or the snake's eye or open mouth. The site is owned by the state, through the Ohio Historical Society, but is operated by Arc of Appalachia Preserve System voluteers. The site is open year round. There is also a small museum and visitor's center, open in the warmer months. A modern metal tower stands to one side allowing a visitor to see an overview. A paved walkway allows you to walk around the effigy.
www.ohiohistory.org
Also on the site are smaller circular and oval burial mounds.
Originally dated to be part of the Adena Indian culture (800BC - 100AD,) 1991 radio carbon dating (of charcoal found within the mound) showed the mound to be from the Fort Ancient Culture (~1100 AD) as was a village hard by the site. However, a 2011 study by William Romain and other researchers dated organic materials in core samples taken along the central ridge of the mound. These most recent findings, again, produced radiocarbon ages that average around 300 B.C. Since the nearby burial mounds and other evidence of occupation date from the time of the Adena culture, it is also possible that the mound was built with some materials that contained charcoal and other organic material from an earlier time period.
This is in a beautiful area of Ohio with interesting geological formations that may have been associated with a meteor strike.
Note: Shawnee people reclaim the great Serpent Mound at the Solstice, details in the comments on our page
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