Congratulations
go to . .
.
the
Ratliff
Family,
for First to
Find: IM PC
Piketon Mounds.
MAXRAYS
says,
“Bravo!!!”
This is one
of my growing list of geocahes that I have placed to take you to
the site of a prehistoric Ohio indian mound. See #51 on page 211 of
"Indian Mounds of the Middle Ohio Valley (2002)."
The Piketon Mounds are a grouping
of four conical burial mounds preserved in Mound Cemetery in
Piketon, Ohio. The largest of the mounds is about 25 feet high and
75 feet in diameter. The smaller mounds range in height from five
to two feet. This mound group is associated with a "Graded Way," or
set of parallel embankments that frame a natural drainage channel
that leads from the high terrace down to the Scioto
River.
The age of the Piketon Mound
group is unknown. Such groupings of conical burial mounds are
typical of the Adena culture (800 BC � AD 100), but the parallel embankments framing
the "Graded Way" are more typical of the Hopewell culture (100
BC �
AD 500). Although there has been
no careful scientific investigation of the mounds, curiosity
seekers have dug into one or more of the mounds. Reportedly, one of
the smaller mounds held the burial of a girl wrapped in
bark.
The Piketon Mounds are listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
information
from: Ohio History
Central.