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Multi-periodSite Name: Pollock Works Alternative Name: Indian Mound Reserve, Peterson ParkCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 11.311 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Dayton, OH Nearest Village: Cedarville, OH
Latitude: 39.740000N Longitude: 83.828W
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 |
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-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 |
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Earthwork in Greene County, Ohio.A linear embankment built on the west side of a small plateau along Massie's Creek. Along with the natural steep drop-offs the result is an enclosed area in excess of twenty acres. The embankment has three entrances. Surveys by Squier and David show smaller embankments and mounds to the west of these entrances, but they have been damaged by plowing and cannot be seen today.
Robert Riordan (Wright State University) has excavated sections of the embankment and determined that it was made in several separate constructions between approximately 50 to 225 AD. His findings showed a pavement of rough limestone at the entrances. The enclosure construction during one period included a plastered stockade on the embankment, but this was later burned and capped with a further layer of earth and stone.
Today the entire enclosure is forested and can be visited by an indistinct trail, starting from a parking area. The Pollock works are part of the present day Indian Mound Reserve in Peterson Park, west of Cedarville.
Sources include:
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, S. Woodward and J. McDonald, 2002.
"Fire, Smoke, and Stone at the Pollock Works", Robert V. Riordan, Ohio Archaeological Council, 2002.
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