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Submitted by aluta on Sunday, 29 August 2010  Page Views: 7747

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Piketon Mounds Alternative Name: Piketon Mound Cemetery
Country: United States Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Piketon, Ohio
Latitude: 39.052763N  Longitude: 83.01801W
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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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
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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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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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.

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : A view of the large mound, surmounted by a modern standing stone, otherwise known as a grave marker. No doubt it was thought to be an honour among later European-descended arrivals to be buried on the highest of the Indian mounds. (Vote or comment on this photo)
There are two visible mounds in the cemetery, one large & one smaller. There is a small grave marker for a Civil War Lt Col. on top of the larger one (see pics) along with another one for his daughter Rebekah. There is a larger marker on the smaller mound for someone named Hughes.

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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Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : A better view of the two very low mounds adjacent to the large mound. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piketon Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Possibly one of a handful of mounds lying outside the cemetery, as seen on older maps. Could also be just disturbed ground from modern digging. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piketon Mounds submitted by stonetracker : These are the two lowest mounds in the 4-mound main group. One under the flagpole, the other to the left of it. They found a child buried in a bark-lined tomb in one of these mounds. Bark-lined tombs are often associated with the Adena period, although the site also has Hopewell elements (espec. the graded way). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piketon Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Second largest mound, 50-100 ft south of the largest. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Piketon Mounds submitted by stonetracker : Largest mound in the cemetery.

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Piketon Mounds submitted by Flickr : Image from page 179 of "Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860" (1860) Identifier: harpersnew21harper Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 Year: 1860 (1860s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library Digitizing Sponsor: Br...

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Piketon Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Drawing, from "Ancient America" via archive.org

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old plan and cross section drawing from "Archaeological History of Ohio" via archive.org

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Piketon Mounds submitted by durhamnature

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing of the graded way, from "Prehistoric America; The Mound Builders" via archive.org

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Piketon Mounds submitted by durhamnature : Old plan drawing of mounds, here or ?nearby, from "American Antiquarian" via archive.org

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Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : Another view of the two larger mounds, showing how they have been incorporated into the cemetery. This kind of incorporation may seem distasteful at first sight, but it often is the reason that earthworks have been preserved at all, as in the case of the famous Octagon Mound at the Newark, Ohio Earthworks, which remained intact largely because it has been incorporated into a golf course. (In...

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Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : The sign at the entrance of the cemetery.

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : Original descriptions of the site mention four mounds. The two low bumps near the large mound, to its left, are probably the remains of the two missing mounds. The cement square anchoring the flag pole is on top of one of them. One of these lower mounds contained a burial of a child wrapped in bark. The rise on the right is the lower portion of the second largest mound.

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : Note the ridge in the background and the bump of the sort often called a "knob" in the U.S. The larger mound seems to echo its form, as we often see in U.K. sites.

Piketon Mounds
Piketon Mounds submitted by aluta : View from outside Mound Cemetery, showing both extant mounds. Photo by Andy Lahr.

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