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The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. The mound is the largest serpent effigy known in the world.
Oblique air photo of central Serpent Mound crater. Serpent Mound crater, also known as the Serpent Mound Disturbance, [1] is an eroded meteorite impact crater in Ohio, United States. It lies largely in Adams County, with the northern part mostly in Highland County, except for a small northeast part in Pike County. [2] [3]
To the east of the main enclosure on a high terrace overlooking the site was a large W-shaped earthwork. This was once thought to be a snake effigy mound similar to the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio; although archaeologists do not currently think this was the case. [3]
A large slab of relatively soft sandstone served as a canvas for the artists, who probably belonged to the Fort Ancient culture, a people who also may have created Ohio’s Serpent Mound (not to ...
The Serpent Mound is on an ancient sea bed centered in a 320 million-year-old meteor impact crater. It is the only place on earth where a meteor has hit a fault line and is filled with ancient ...
A sketch of the Serpent Mound located in Adams County, Ohio. Photo credit: ...
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A sketch of the Serpent Mound located in Adams County, Ohio. Photo credit: ... The Great Seal of Ohio. Photo credit: State of Ohio. More Selected Pictures. Portal ...