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Votes:0 Serpent Mound Serpent mound, stretching a quarter mile long, is the largest serpent effigy (representation of an image) known to this day. There are also serpent effigies located in Scotland and Ontario that are very similar. The bottom of the mound is constructed of clay and rock and the soil covering the rock is four to five feet high. The mound was built on top of a remarkably unique cryptoexplosive structure that has caused the effigy to become misshapen through the years. The structure of the serpent is controversial. Squier and Davis were among the first to survey the mound. According to them the shape looked like a serpent with it's mouth open, about to devour an egg. Others have said that it represented the myth of the horned serpent in many Indian cultures. The ancestors of the In Read More Go to Site
Votes:0 SEARCHING
FOR THE GREAT HOPEWELL ROAD Home THE SEARCH CONTINUES... Dr. Bradley Lepper, Ohio Historical Society The search for the Great Hopewell Road continues. As opportunities
arise, I continue to sift through the archives of museums and historical
societies for references to earthen walls and ancient roads. In addition,
I?m still finding and studying new (and old) aerial photographs of the
landscape between Newark and Chillicothe. It is clear that the plow-flattened
walls show up best under particular soil conditions, for photographs of
the same area taken at different times of the year sometimes reveal traces
of the walls and sometimes do not. In 1931, Warren Weiant, Jr. noted the
lines in the soil could be seen only during a short period of time in the
spring -- apparently the grass g Read More Go to Site
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