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One of the few effigy mounds in Ohio, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States. Nearly a quarter of a mile long, Serpent Mound apparently represents an uncoiling....
Nov 19, 2013 · But recently, scientists have dated charcoal pieces recovered from soil cores taken across Great Serpent Mound. The samples have yielded dates between 400 and 80 B.C. , suggesting that the effigy ...
Serpent Mound in Peebles, Ohio: Filled with mystery and surrounded by nature’s splendor, the largest and most famous Indian effigy mound in North America awaits. The Serpent Mound is one of the oldest mysteries, challenging scientists to unravel the mystique of the winding earthen snake, which is 1,300 feet long, 25 feet wide, 5 feet high, and over 1,000 years old.
May 7, 2021 · The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-foot (411 m)-long,[2] three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Maintained within...
Serpent Mound crater, also known as the Serpent Mound Disturbance, 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 .
Jun 21, 2021 · Mary Annette Pember Indian Country Today. The Shawnee tribe returned home to the Serpent Mound on the longest day of the year. The Summer Solstice, June 20, the longest day of the year, marks the first time that the Shawnee tribe has officially returned to the Serpent Mound located in Ohio to present their history and connection to this place that they called home so many years ago.
The grandest of the representational mounds is the depiction of an undulating snake, perhaps a stylized rattlesnake, in Adams County, Ohio, known as the Great Serpent Mound. Over 1,300 feet long, with an average height of four to five feet and a width of 20 to 25 feet, the serpent is located on a wedge-shaped, slightly convex ridge in the rolling hills of southern Ohio where it overlooks a ...
