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and one uncertain enclosure. Of these the strong probability is some are 

 artificial. Doubtless some of the smaller mounds and enclosures have long 

 since been obliterated by cultivation. 



I will now give a detailed list of the mounds and enclosures of Henry 

 county, which I have represented upon an outline map. There is a circular 

 earthwork, or enclosure, on E. S. E. .Section 1, T. 16, R. 10, in Franklin town- 

 ship, owned by .J. P. Nicholson, about sixty rods east of the pike. This has 

 been almost obliterated by long cultivation. It is about 150 feet in diam- 

 eter. I got my information mainly from Jethro AVickersham, whose father 

 once owned the farm. There is a circular inclosure on the line between 

 the N. E. and N. W. quarters of Sec. 22, T. 17, E. 10, Henry township, 100 

 rods west, and one and three-eighths of a mile south of the court house, on 

 lands owned by R. M. Chambers and M. L. Bundy. It is still in the woods 

 though mostly cut off. Its diameter (measuring in all cases from the center 

 of the embankments), is 115 feet; the height of embankment, at highest 

 point from bottom of ditch is about three feet. There is an open place, or 

 gateway, on the east side, about twelve feet wide. There is the appearance 

 of a small mound inside of the enclosure toward the west side, about fifteen 

 feet in diameter and eighteen to twenty-four inches high. Width of ditch 

 about eight feet, of embankment about fifteen feet. Large trees have grown, 

 died and decayed within this enclosure and its ditches and upon its em- 

 bankments since it was built. There is also a small mound in S. W. quar- 

 ter Sec. 7, T. 16, R. 11 E., nearly obliterated by cultivation, but I have not 

 made a personal inspection of it. There is another enclosure about 250 feet 

 in diameter on the west side of the N. E. quarter of S. AV. quarter Sec. 2, T. 

 17, R. 10, owned by Joseph Dorran. In early times this enclosure was a 

 noted structure. Its banks were five or six feet high, and the ditches were 

 clearly marked, but the northern turnpike runs through the eastern side of 

 it, while the larger part of it has been under cultivation for more than fifty 

 years, and it is gradually being obliterated. Its banks are now not more 

 than one to two feet high. I will say here, that in all the enclosures in 

 this county the ditches are on the inside of the enclosure. On the north- 

 east quarter of this same section, mostly on the southwest quarter of the 

 quarter and less than half a mile to the northeast from the above named 

 enclosure, is the largest group of enclosures and mounds found in the 

 county. They are situated on the eastern part of the farm of John C. Hud- 

 leson, and cover an area of ten to twenty acres. There are in the group 

 nine well defined enclosures, and one or two apparent enclosures which 



