SACRED E N C L O S IT R E S . 



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the walls, were formed by carelessly scooping up the earth at their base, leaving 

 irregular pits near them. In most of the regular works, the material seems to have 

 been taken up evenly and with care, or brought from a distance. 



No one would be apt to ascribe a defensive origin to this work, yet it is difficult to 

 conceive for what other purpose a structure of such dimensions, embracing nearly 

 one hundred acres, could have been designed. The great mound is anomalous in 

 its character, and throws no light on the question. That there is some hidden 

 significance, in the first place in the regularity, and secondly in the arrangement 

 of the various parts, can hardly be doubted. Nor can the coincidences observable 

 between this and the other succeeding^ works of the same series be wholly 

 accidental.* 



PLATE XXI. No. l.t 



This work is situated on the right bank of Paint creek, fourteen miles distant 

 from Chillicothe. It is but another combination of the figures composing the 

 work belonging to this series, just described ; from which, in structure, it differs in 

 no material respect, except that the walls are higher and heavier. It is one of the 

 best preserved works in the valley ; the only portion which is much injured being 



* To put, at once, all skepticism at rest, which might otherwise arise as to the regularity of these works, 

 it should be stated that they were all carefully surveyed by the authors in person. Of course, no difficulty 

 existed in determining the perfect regularity of the squares. The method of procedure, m respect to the 

 circles, was as follows. Flags were raised at regular and convenient intervals, upon the embankments, 

 representing stations. The compass was then placed alternately at these stations, and the bearing of the 

 flag next beyond ascertained. If the angles thus determined proved to be coincident, the regularit)' of the 

 work was placed beyond doubt. The supplementary plan A indicates the method of survey, the " Field 

 Book " of which, the circle being thirty-six hundred feet in circumference, and the stations three hundred 

 feet apart, is as follows : — 



STATION. BE.\KIXG. 



1 . . . . N. 75° E. 



2 . . N. 45° E. . 



3 . . . . N. 15° E. 



4 . . . N. 15° W. . 



5 . . . N. 45° W. 

 G . N. 75° W. . 



7 . . . . S. 75° W. . 



8 . . S. 45° W. . 



9 . . . . S. 15° W. . 



10 . S. 15° E. . 



11 . . . . S. 45° E. 



12 ... S. 75° E 



DISTANCE. 



.100 feet. 



t Indicated by the letter B, in Map 1, Plate III. 

 by Mr. Atwatcr in the Archa'olojjia Americana, vol. i. 

 respective plans will show. 



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This and the succeeding work are represented 

 p. 14fi: with what fidelit;-, an inspection of the 



