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Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Piketon Mounds Alternative Name: Piketon Mound CemeteryCountry: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Piketon, Ohio
Latitude: 39.052763N Longitude: 83.01801W
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 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Was able to locate what I believe are the 4 main mounds in the cemetery proper. The graded way is long gone as far as I can tell. See photos.
There are no historical markers of any kind at the site or any mention of them being Indian mounds, despite the fact they're listed on the U.S. Federal and State Protected Sites mound listings.
In the past this site had two adjacent lower mounds and four additional mounds nearby, plus most notably, a feature called a graded way, meaning a set of parallel embankments that led to the nearby Scioto River, with walls in some places as high as 22 feet or almost 7 meters.
"Ohio History Central says,
"The age of the Piketon Mound group is unknown. Such groupings of conical burial mounds are typical of the Adena culture (800 BC - AD 100), but the parallel embankments framing the "Graded Way" are more typical of the Hopewell culture (100 BC - AD 500).
Although there has been no careful scientific investigation of the mounds, curiosity seekers have dug into one or more of the mounds. Reportedly, one of the smaller mounds held the burial of a girl wrapped in bark."
For more detail on the site, see here and for old maps and drawings of it see here. If you're really set on knowing more, see the discussion about 1/3 of the way down this page.
Only 5 miles or so south of this point along the same river the Barnes Works, including a perfectly square enclosure connected by embankments to an equally impressive circular enclosure, can be found. This site was so well known in the 1800's that it received a visit from then President Abraham Lincoln. As far as we know, at least some of those enclosures remain and it is said that they have never been excavated. All of these sites are roughly 30 miles from the world famous Great Serpent Mound site.
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