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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 06 September 2010  Page Views: 9992

Date UncertainSite Name: Indian Mound Park Alternative Name: Shoaf Mound(s)
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 6.155 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Columbus, OH
Latitude: 39.883000N  Longitude: 82.9894W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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2 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
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1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Indian Mound Park
Indian Mound Park submitted by bat400 : A general view of the two mounds in Indian Mound Park, Columbus OH. Looking north.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2008. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Possible Artificial Mound in Franklin County, Ohio.
This was farmland under the plow before the public park was created. It contains a much reduced artificial mound, documented by the first European settlers to the area, but with little documentation indicating any study or designation to a particular prehistoric period.

Another low mound can be seen at the north edge of the park at the shared properly line with modern homes. Recently, doubts have been raised on whether these actually are artificially created mounds, but they were identified as such in the 19th century and are still listed as such in many catalogs, books, and websites.

The park is just off of Parsons Avenue in south Columbus.

[Some information from:
Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley, Susan L Woodward and Jerry N McDonald. 2002, the McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg VA.
History of the City of Columbus, Alfred E. Lee. 1892.]

Note: Dirt hills or Indian mounds? "It's a little tough to pinpoint what's there, if they're going to develop the area, it's worth a look."
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Indian Mound Park
Indian Mound Park submitted by AKFisher : 1840's survey of the Conneaut, Ohio Earthworks, a Hilltop Fort. It is located on the flat top of a 70-foot high shale hill with the sides so steep that there is only one place to ascend. It was first "discovered" in the mid 1800s. The high earthen/stone walls along the edges of the hilltop enclose 5 acres and today it is in "Indian Mound Metropark" and called "Conneaut Fort." It is believed to hav... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Indian Mound Park
Indian Mound Park submitted by bat400 : A view of the more northerly of the two mounds, looking east. The sidewalk runs directly over the mound which lies partially within the park and partially in the back yard of a private home.
Photo by bat400, Oct 2008. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: 'Dig' at Indian Mound Park finds Nothing. by Anonymous on Tuesday, 24 May 2011
I don't know if those are indian mounds or just natural formations. What I do know is that I am named after my great-great-great grandfather who moved there in 1812 with the Spangler's and Stimmel families from Virginia. That means nothing to anyone else, but means something to me. Just thought I'd add my two cents worth.
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Re: 'Dig' at Indian Mound Park finds Nothing. by ghostlly on Monday, 13 September 2010
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Indian mounds
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'Dig' at Indian Mound Park finds Nothing. by bat400 on Thursday, 09 September 2010
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The Parks Department of Columbus hired a private archaeology firm to test the site for evidence that the two mounds were man made. The test and the report are not described in any detail, but the bottom line was "no evidence" that the mound was artificial.

See the exceedingly brief report at the Columbus Dispatch. The test may well have been a simple "shovel" test. If no artifacts were found, I'm unsure if that alone could have determined with the mound was built up by baskets of earth. I infer by the photographs that the renovation of the park was well underway when the test was made.
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Dirt hills or Indian mounds? Some call for dig. by bat400 on Monday, 06 September 2010
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Submitted by coldrum ---

Construction at Columbus park could threaten artifacts -- if there are any

Ohio Historical Society officials say the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department should stop bulldozing a South Side park until experts can determine whether ancient artifacts are buried beneath the mounds there.
"We would strongly encourage the city to bring in archeologists," said Dave Snyder, archaeology reviews manager for the Ohio Historical Preservation Office.

Recreation and Parks Director Alan McKnight said as far as he knows, no artifacts were buried at Indian Mound Park, which was farmland before the city took it over decades ago.

But Franco Ruffini, the state's deputy historic preservation officer, said no one seems to know if there was ever an archaeological survey performed at the park.

"I think it would be helpful to us to get good information," Ruffini said.

A contractor began excavating the park this week to clear the way for $408,000 in improvements, including new athletic and baseball fields, a shelter house, landscaping and a parking lot.

The city's Parks Commission named it Indian Mound Park in 1962 "because of the large mounds of dirt that resemble Indian mounds," according to city records.

The city built a recreation center on the site in the 1970s.

According to state records, the two mounds named for landowner and farmer John Shoaf, were "nearly leveled" as long ago as 1889. The mounds are located northwest of Parsons Avenue and Obetz Road.

A June 22, 1995, letter signed by Ruffini said testing of three swells in the area that some residents thought were Indian mounds showed they were natural remnants of glacial debris.
But Ruffini said yesterday that state records suggest those tests were done north of the park where a developer was building a housing subdivision.

"It's a little tough to pinpoint what's there," Ruffini said of the park. "The point is that if they're going to develop the area, it's worth a look."

An archaeological report by James L. Murphy dated June 12, 1995, said documentation on the site "is so meager and ambiguous that it remains uncertain whether this site is entirely natural in origin or incorporates prehistoric burial features."


For more, see the article by Mark Ferenchik in the Columbus Dispatch, mferenchik@dispatch.com
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    Natural or Man-made? Impressions of a 2008 visit and Ref to 2007 paper. by bat400 on Tuesday, 07 September 2010
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    I have to admit that this is one of the least impressive sites I have visited that purports to be a prehistoric mound site. The undulation of the south mound is almost unnoticeable except from some angles. The northern mound is more obvious and right on the border of the private property and park, there is an abrupt dimple of earth, although I had the distinct impression that that feature might be historic - a remnant of the 1950-60's era housing addition.

    James L. Murphy and his 1995 report, mentioned in the article, seems to have followed up with this: Indian Mound Wannabes: The Shoaf "Mounds," Franklin County, Ohio, dated in 2007. Another item in the "against" column is that there doesn't seem to be any stories of digging into the site in the last two centuries looking for "treasure" or "artifacts". Either instance would have been common enough for a site thought to be an Indian Mound.

    Both these competing theories (natural or man-made) have precedence. In the American midwest some formations (kames, drumlins, and loess deposits) created by glaciers of the last Ice Age have been mistaken for man-made mounds, and vice versa. To makes things more interesting, pre-contact peoples sometimes used natural mounds as burial sites.

    A geophysical examination. followed by test, might clarify the matter for these mounds.
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