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A K C I E i\ T Al O K U M E N T S . 



PLATE XXI. No. 4. 



This work is sixteen miles tlistant from the one last described, and is situated on 

 the left bank of the North fork of Paint creek. A portion of it is included in the 

 town limits of Frankfort, better known as " Oldtown," or " Old Chillicothe."* 



The combination of the great circle and the square, in this work, is identical 

 with that which exists in the celebrated Circleville work, — which work, it may 

 be observed, is no more remarkable than numbers of others, and owes its celebrity 

 entirely to the fact, that it has been several times described with some minuteness. 



A reduced plan of the Circleville work, Fig. 10, 

 is herewith presented, which will sufficiently illus- 

 trate this remark. Its dimensions were consider- 

 ably less than those of the analogous structures 

 already described. The sides of the square mea- 

 sured not far from nine hundred feet in length, and 

 F,o ,(, the diameter of the circle was a little more than 



one thousand feet. The work was peculiar in having a double embankment con- 

 stituting the circle. It is now almost entirely destroyed, and its features are no 

 longer traceable.f 



The walls of the rectangular portion of the Frankfort work, where not oblit- 

 erated by the improvements of the town, are still several feet high. They were, 

 within the recollection of many people, much higher. They are composed of clay 

 (while the embankment of the circle is composed of gravel and loam), which, as in 

 the case of the square work described, Plate X, appears to have been very much 

 burned. 



The isolated mound near the upper boundary of the circle is composed entirely 

 of clay, and is twelve feet high ; the others are of gravel, the largest being no less 

 than twenty feet in altitude. Various dug holes or pits, from which the material 

 for the embankments and mounds was evidently taken, are indicated in the plan. 

 Some of them are, at this time, fifteen or twenty feet deep. The subsoil at this 

 locality, as shown by excavation, is clay. If there was no design, therefore, in 

 constructing the walls of the square of that material, it follows that it was built 

 last, and after the loam and gravel had been removed from the pits. 



A portion of the large circle has been encroached upon and destroyed by the 



* The site of the town of Frankfort was formerly that of a famous 8hawnee town. Tlie burial place 

 of the Indian town is shown in the plan ; from it numerous relics are obtained, — gun-barrels, copper 

 kettles, silver crosses and brooches, and many other implements and ornaments which, in accordance with 

 aboriginal custom, were buried with the dead. Some of them, from being found in close proximity to the 

 work above described, have erroneously been supposed to appertain to the race of the mound-builders. 



t Archseologia Americana, vol. i. p. 14J 



