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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound Alternative Name: Flag Spring Cemetery Mound, Mound no.9 Group CCountry: United States
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Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Village: Newtown, Ohio
Latitude: 39.127250N Longitude: 84.355694W
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 |
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Artificial Mound in Hamilton County, Ohio.
The Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound is a Adena culture mound in southwest Ohio, east of Cincinnati. The mound is located in the village of Newtown, Ohio, sited on the flood plain of the Little Miami River.
The mound is an oval approximately 110 feet (34 m) long and 90 feet (27 m) wide; its height is 11.3 feet (3.4 m).
The mound is one of the few remnants of what was once a large complex of prehistoric earthworks and other archaeological sites. There are reports of perhaps a dozen other much smaller mounds (4ft high, 10 ft wide) within a three or four mile radius from the Cemetery. Most of these minor mounds are on private property and are not well-documented.
While multiple village sites are still in existence around Newtown, including the Perin Village Site just 0.3 miles (0.5 km) to the northwest, many of the earthworks have been destroyed.
Because of its location in a cemetery, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound has been spared destruction; although a few graves have been dug around the mound, there has been no significant damage done as a result.
A smaller mound, known as the "Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound 2," is located within the same cemetery; it is only a small fraction of the larger mound's size.
This mound has been damaged by the digging of six graves into its side; however, no artifacts are known to have been found during the interment process.
For many years, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound has been a landmark in the community. In 1943, a survey of Newtown performed by the Federal Writers' Project highlighted it and noted that it was "the only mound distinctly visible" in the vicinity of the village. Thirty years later, the mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its potential to become an archaeological site, with a suspected Period of Significance of 500-999 BC, 499-0 BC, 499-0 AD, 1000-1499 BC.
Sources include:
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, S. Woodward and J. McDonald, 2002.
Federal Writers Project. Cincinnati: a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. Cincinnati: Wiesen-Hart, 1943, 481.
Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places, Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999.
National Register of Historic Places, Record #73001474, Period of Significance: 500-999 BC, 499-0 BC, 499-0 AD, 1000-1499 BC.
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