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<< Other Photo Pages >> Dunlap Works - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by AKFisher on Tuesday, 01 August 2023  Page Views: 188

Multi-periodSite Name: Dunlap Works
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Cincinnati  Nearest Village: Ross County
Latitude: 39.295180N  Longitude: 84.65532W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dunlap Works
Dunlap Works submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). 1846 survey of the Dunlap Works in Ross County, Ohio. In many ways this was a typical Hopewell set of geometric earthworks. These were made primarily in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, & Tennessee starting roughly around 500 BC. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

From Wikipedia:

"The Dunlap Works are a group of Hopewell tradition earthworks located in Ross County, Ohio in the United States. It is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) north of the city of Chillicothe, Ohio on the left bank of the Scioto River.[1][2] The site should not be confused with the earthworks in Hamilton County on the Great Miami River near Dunlap's Station, the former site of a pioneer fort.[3]

Survey history:
Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis visited the site in 1846. They shared the analysis of their survey in their 1848 publication, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. In their survey of the site, they reported that one work is shaped as a rhomboid. Off of the rhomboid work was an avenue. One side of the avenue headed southwest 1,130 feet. The other side was shorter and ended at a small circle. The west side of the work was a plain elevated a number of feet above the rhomboid itself. An extension of the work was 80 feet wide and 280 in length. The plain overlooked another, larger earthwork, with a large gateway providing access.[2]

Towards the end of the avenue stopped 60 feet short of another gateway. The gateway was 120 feet wide. The end of the avenue had a small mound. An additional mound was just south of the main work. That mound was surrounded by a ditch and a low embankment. Another half a mile away was a group of mounds close to the avenue on the lower level. One mound was truncated at 15 feet high and 100 feet in diameter. At the truncated top, it was 50 feet in diameter. Squier and Davis noted that the lower level may have suffered from flooding on occasion. In their 1848 report, they share that the truncated mound was a respite from a flood for a family, their horses, cattle and belongings during a flood of 1832.[2]

That mound was excavated and human skeletons were found two to five feet deep into the mound. Squier and Davis believed that the skeletons those of "modern Indians." Sherds and shells were discovered within and around the mound. Pottery was also discovered during modern cultivation. Squier and Davis hypothesized that the pottery was made by "modern" Native peoples.[2]"

References:
1. Reilly, Mary. "Inventory of Sites Rebuilt or Otherwise Included in "EarthWorks". News. University of Cincinnati. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
2. Ephraim George Squier; Edwin Hamilton Davis (1848). Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Smithsonian Institution. pp. 157–159.
3. The Great Miami Valley from Miami Fort to the Miamisburg Mound". Ancient Ohio Trail. Retrieved 30 July 2013.

Further reading and information:
1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlap_Works
2. Scienceviews.com. https://scienceviews.com/squier/ancientmonuments3-8.html

Directions: From Ross, via OH-128 S and Hamilton Cleves Pike Rd., 3.9 mi.

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