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The Prussians took the Christian bishop and imprisoned him for several years. A map of the Old Prussian tribes after the subjugation by the Teutonic Order in the 13th century. The indicated towns feature Teutonic fortifications or castles, built to facilitate the conquest. A translation of catechisms into Old Prussian published in 1545 in ...
The three mounds are on the Scioto River, near the Ohio River confluence. [2]William C. Mills in 1917 described the topography, "The immediate location of the mounds and village site is a level plateau of less than five acres in extent, elevated a little more than forty feet above the bottom land into which it projects, promontory like, with steep and very abrupt banks."
Moorehead Circle was a triple woodhenge constructed about two millennia ago at the Fort Ancient Earthworks in the U.S. state of Ohio.. The outer circle, discovered in 2005 by Jarrod Burks, is about 60 metres (200 ft) in diameter. [1]
This is a listing of sites of archaeological interest in the state of Ohio, in the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out ...
As one of southwestern Ohio's more significant archaeological sites, the Turpin site has been used as a benchmark for the study of other Fort Ancient sites in the Ohio River watershed. In 2007, Kathleen Brady-Rawlins made extensive use of data from Turpin in her post excavation analysis of the O.C. Voss Site in western Franklin County , along ...
The mound today stands 30 feet (9.1 m) in height and is the sole intact feature of the earthworks. [2] The ditch surrounding the mound is 15 feet (4.6 m) in width and 4 feet (1.2 m) deep, with its surrounding embankment measuring 20 feet (6.1 m) across its base and 585 feet (178 m) in circumference.
They constructed earthworks, like conical burial mounds and circular enclosures—some of the earliest earthworks built in Ohio. [14] There were also people in northern Ohio who lived similarly to the Adena culture, but their earthworks were oval enclosures called forts and walls along bluffs. They did not create large earthen mounds. [14]
The Ufferman Site (also known as the A. Sawyer Site, [1] and designated 33DL12 [2]) is an archaeological site in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] Located north of the city of Delaware, [3] it occupies approximately 2 acres (0.81 ha) of land near Delaware Lake on property near to the boundaries of Delaware State Park.