Megalithic Portal: Latest from Kentucky, United States

Gaitskill Mound Site

AKFisher — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:23:01 GMT

]]>Indian Mound attributed to Adena people who inhabited Ohio Valley ca. 800 B.C. to 700 A.D. They began cultivating simple crops, bringing about a mixed hunting and farming economy. Central to Adena life were rituals involving cremation and mound building. Engraved stone tablets found here indicate mound to be Adena. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, 1975."

Stone Serpent Mound

AKFisher — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:04:12 GMT

]]>Geoglyph in Great Lakes Midwest

Adams Site

AKFisher — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:46:15 GMT

]]>Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

Shannon Mound

AKFisher — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:38:14 GMT

]]>The Shannon Mound site is most likely an Adena burial mound. It is a 100 foot diameter conical mound, 10 feet in height. The immediate area around the mound has been used as a cemetary in historic times; thus, the mound has not been excavated. The north end of the mound, perhaps an additional 15 to 20 feet of diameter, is missing.

Page Site, Kentucky

AKFisher — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 16:31:34 GMT

]]>The Page Site was a huge mound complex with 67 mounds, but today only 30 mounds remain. It was once famously known as "Lost City" and was developed as a tourist site with a museum erected on a large platform mound. In the 1960s the venture failed and the museum was torn down.

Round Hill Mound Site

AKFisher — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:58:13 GMT

]]>A burial mound attributed by the National Register of Historic Places to the Adena culture is the central feature of the village. The ovoid earthwork has a base of roughly 150 by 90 feet and a height of 25 feet. Unsystematic excavations in the early twentieth century by local residents produced flint tools and human remains. The mound stands on private property but is visible from the road.

Rowlandton Mound Site

AKFisher — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:07:15 GMT

]]>Artificial Mound in Great Lakes Midwest

Indian Fort Mountain

Andy B — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:06:09 GMT

]]>A logging path cut through a massive stone/earthen wall on the mountain near Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.

O'Bayum's Fort

Andy B — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:30:23 GMT

]]>Artificial Mound in The South

Skeleton Mountain Snake Effigy Site

AKFisher — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:52:34 GMT

]]>Site excavation by Jacksonville State University Alabama in 2007 noted a lineal stone wall (possibly snake effigy), one U-shape structure, two small stone conical mounds, and a recently disturbed portion of the site.

Mt. Horeb Earthworks Complex

hgbarb — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 13:04:57 GMT

]]>The mound contains a perfect circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide enclosure with a 33-foot (10 m) wide entryway facing to the west. The site is well-maintained - located on a bank 75 feet (23 m) above Elkhorn Creek. Mt. Horeb Site 1 is owned by the University of Kentucky as "Adena Park", and access is restricted to alumni and others with a connection to the University.

Indian Knoll

bat400 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:05:18 GMT

]]>Ancient Village or Settlement in Ohio County, Kentucky. A shell midden with evidence of settlement, including hearths, structure foundations, the introduction of ceramics, tool manufacture and food processing, but more notable as a cemetery site spanning hundreds of years. Indian Knoll was created over time by successive shellfish harvesting, and some settlement. But over many generations it became a successive burial site for peoples of Archaic cultures (3000–2000 B.C.), with very limited use into Woodland and Mississippian eras.

Wickliffe Mounds

bat400 — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:59:02 GMT

]]>Ancient Settlement in Ballard County, Kentucky with structural and burial mounds. Wickliffe Mounds is a Mississippian Culture town. Smaller than Angel Mounds, it shares features with that site, including structural mounds around a central plaza, closely sited dwellings of wattle and daub, and some indication of a possible stockade. The site is on a bluff near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

Slack Farm

bat400 — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:22:43 GMT

Ancient Village and Cemetery in Union County, Kentucky.An extensive village with cemetery sections, dating to 1400-1650AD. Pottery and other dating methods identify the people who founded and occupied the Slack Farm Site as belonging to the Caborn-Welborn culture, which was located around the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers.

Red Bird Petroglyphs

bat400 — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:22:34 GMT

Small town paper decries big-city, smarty pants archaeologists for ignoring their ancient Og-ham/Libyan/Iberian-Punic petroglyphs.. Rock Art in Clay County, Kentucky.A series of markings, some vaguely alphabetic, some slightly pictorial, have been carved into sandstone. A modern hand has outlined some of the markings with white or light blue paint. The origin has been attributed (by whom is unsure) to up to eight ancient European and middle eastern alphabets, as well as (rather more obviously) Native Americans.