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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]
The Stubbs Earthworks (also known as Bigfoot Earthworks [2] and Warren County Serpent Mound) was a massive Ohio Hopewell culture (100 BCE to 500 CE) archaeological site located in Morrow in Warren County, Ohio.
Serpent Mound: Ohio: 2008 i, iii, iv (cultural) The Serpent Mound is a large effigy mound in shape of a snake that was built around 1120 CE by the Fort Ancient culture. The structure is 1,348 ft (411 m) long and up to 4 ft 11 in (1.5 m) tall.
Great Serpent Mound, Ohio, constructed ca. 200 BCE An effigy mound is a raised pile of earth built in the shape of a stylized animal, symbol, religious figure, human, or other figure. The Effigy Moundbuilder culture is primarily associated with the years 550–1200 CE during the Late Woodland Period , although radiocarbon dating has placed the ...
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 ...
When viewed from the observatory mound, the moon rises at that time within one-half of a degree of the octagon's exact center. The earthwork is twice as precise as the complex at Stonehenge (assuming Stonehenge is an observatory, which is a disputed theory). [7] From 1892 to 1908, the state of Ohio used the Octagon Earthworks as a militia ...
The J.J. Uplinger store. That’s apparently Jacob J. Uplinger (1853-1938) standing outside his general store at 10 N. Main St. in Munroe Falls.