Explorations in Ohio, Vol. 1: Conducted for the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, in Connection with Harvard University; The Marriott Mound, No. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Metz, Charles L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1334673993 ISBN 13: 9781334673993

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Explorations in Ohio, Vol. 1: Conducted for the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology, in Connection With Harvard University; The Marriott Mound, No. 1

IN October, 1884, we explored a mound on the land of Mr. Benjamin Marriott, adjoining Michael Turner's farm. This is one of two mounds Situated west of the hill on which is the mound and earth-circle forming part of the Turner group in the Little Miami valley. Through this hill, cutting it from east to west, run two deep curved trenches, and the two mounds on Mr. Marriott's farm are opposite the western ends of these trenches. The southern one has been long used as a family cemetery, so we could not explore it. The other, which we explored, has been ploughed over for many years, and is consequently much reduced in height.

At the time of our work it was about two feet high and sixty feet in diameter. Over this lower portion there had been a covering of water-worn stones, brought from the creek bottom. They had been much disturbed by the plough, but they seem to have been arranged as shown in Fig. 1, representing a section of the mound. We dug the mound completely away, and found at its centre a mass of burnt clay in the form of a rude basin about two feet in diameter (figs. 1, 2, A). The clay (343581) of which the basin had been formed was placed on the surface of the ground over which the mound had been erected.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1334673993
• ISBN 13: 9781334673993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26