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<< Our Photo Pages >> Miamisburg Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in Great Lakes Midwest

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 29 August 2019  Page Views: 7078

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Miamisburg Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 1.218 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Miamisburg, Ohio
Latitude: 39.628000N  Longitude: 84.28W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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romadon4 visited on 1st May 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Located in a park off of a paved road. Plenty of parking spots. A short walk across the grass and up the steps. Amazing views! Wooden benches at the top. Very windy on the day I visited. The site is well-maintained. I wince at the steps cut into the mound but understand the need to keep the wear & tear down to a single path.

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Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by baz : The Miamisburg Mound from the south-west. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Miamisburg Mound is the largest conical burial mound in Ohio. At 68 feet high and 877 feet in circumference, it is possibly the largest conical mound in the United States. It is identified as having been built by the Adena culture (roughly 800BC - 100AD) based on evidence of archeology in the area. It was definitely a burial mound but documentation of the type and number of burials seems limited.

The part of Miamisburg where the mound is lies on a 100 foot bluff above the river. The mound is in a modern city park and is accessible at all times. To prevent erosion, the city put in steps to the top of the mound.
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Miamisburg Mound submitted by baz : The Miamisburg Mound from the east (Vote or comment on this photo)

Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by bat400 : Miamisburg Mound Miamisburg, Montgomery Co., Ohio Conical earthen burial mound. View for the top. Note the mature trees in full autumn colors. (photo used by permission - J.Q. Jacobs) (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miamisburg Mound submitted by durhamnature : Drawing, from "Ancient America" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : The mound with the setting sun behind it. Image copyright: bobosh_t (Ted), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : Indian Burial Mound Ohio has a few of these Native American burial mounds. This one is in Miamisburg Ohio. I shot this at sunset. Image copyright: ~Sh@wn~, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : Miamisburg Mound. Image copyright: +Lonnie & Lou+ ("Lonnie & Lou" tennant), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : Miamisburg Mound Excavations conducted in 1869 revealed details of construction suggesting the Adena culture (800 B.C. to 100 A.D.) built the mound in several stages. The excavators found a layer of flat stones, overlapping like shingles on a roof, at a depth of 24 feet below the surface. At one point in its history, the mound had a stone facing. Monuments like Miamisburg Mound served as cemeterie...

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Miamisburg Mound submitted by durhamnature : Old photo from "Mound Builders..." via archive.org

Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by Bat400 : This is a copied version of an extremely nice photo by J.Q.Jacobs, taken on a trip to Ohio and surrounds to collect data on mound sites. Used by permission from his website. Please excuse the degraded quality that my copying introduced.

Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : Miamisburg Mound Image copyright: Sammy1000 aka Jay, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Miamisburg Mound
Miamisburg Mound submitted by Flickr : Excavations conducted in 1869 revealed details of construction suggesting the Adena culture (800 B.C. to 100 A.D.) built the mound in several stages. The excavators found a layer of flat stones, overlapping like shingles on a roof, at a depth of 24 feet below the surface. At one point in its history, the mound had a stone facing. Monuments like Miamisburg Mound served as cemeteries for several gen...

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Street View Miamisburg Mound by bat400 on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Re: Miamisburg Mound by Anonymous on Sunday, 02 December 2007
The Miamisburg mound was built by an ancient culture not a name called adena. There were no such people. The scholarly folks always want to place someones name on everything they come into contact with. A more respectful word would be the "First inhabitants" of this land but that would be way to respectful.
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