<< Our Photo Pages >> Indian Mound Park - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest
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Date UncertainSite Name: Indian Mound Park Alternative Name: Shoaf Mound(s)Country: United States
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Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Columbus, OH
Latitude: 39.883000N Longitude: 82.9894W
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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bat400 visited on 1st Oct 2009 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 2 Access: 5
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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