<< Image Pages >> Millford Earthworks Circle Diverging Lines - Hill Figure or Geoglyph in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Millford Earthworks Circle Diverging LinesCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.491 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Nearest Town: Cincinnati, Ohio Nearest Village: Milford, Ohio
Latitude: 39.175200N Longitude: 84.2849W
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 |
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Hill Figure or Geoglyph in Clermont and Hamilton counties, Ohio.
Part of what is described as the 'Milford-Newtown-Turner earthwork cluster' multiple earthworks were built on both sides of the Little Miami River around and in what is now Milford Ohio.
Squier & Davis include some of the Milford earthworks in their 1848 Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. One of the most prominent to them and including an unique shape was a complex of a hilltop circle with diverging walls leading out of the circle to the southwest. They also indicated a connecting parallel lined causeway leading east to a much larger square with a co-joined, large irregular circle.
Unfortunately their figure in the publication places the complex on actual topography that does not match their text description of the hilltop location.
In the later half of the 19th century the small town of Milford expanded eastward along the Milford-Chilicothe turnpike and pretty much completely destroyed this earthwork. Aerial photography from the 1930's through the 1960's captures some of the complex and places the circle of this figure at the location indicated for this site.
References:
* Squier & Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, 1848.
* The Ancient Ohio Trail: Cincinnati-Little Miami
* The Valley of the Mound Builders: Milford Works
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