<< Our Photo Pages >> Dixon Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Multi-periodSite Name: Dixon MoundCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 5.524 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Homer OH
Latitude: 40.251535N Longitude: 82.524447W
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 |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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stonetracker visited on 1st Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Other accounts have described access to this mound as "private" and "no trespassing." But I encountered no such issues on a recent visit. Parked in a nearby lot for town offices, walked in back and the mound was maybe 100 ft to the left in a field not far from a baseball diamond. The mound property was not posted, but the possible enclosure referred to in the description is posted as private.
Mound site is about 100 ft east of a public baseball field adjacent to a parking lot for Homer OH town offices. Other accounts have described it as a single conical mound about 15 ft in height, although it looked more like 20-30 ft to my eyes. Mound is somewhat overgrown with shrubs and small trees but clearly visible. It was never excavated, but the shape of the mound and site configuration suggests that it was built by the Adena culture.
There is what looks like the ruined remains of a rectangular enclosure 400 ft to the south of it, but access is posted with No Trespassing signs and it is very overgrown. Whether it is prehistoric or simply the remains of some historic boundary or other structure is unknown.
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