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height of one hundred and sixty feet. The remaining sides are less abrupt. Upon 

 the south is the principal gateway, and here the declivity is gentle. This gateway 

 is covered upon the interior by a ditch, c c, twenty feet wide, and seven hundred feet 

 long. At d d d are dug holes, from which it is apparent a portion of the earth 

 composing the embankments was taken. At & is a natural depression forty feet deep, 

 and covering not far from one and a half acres. At the northern slope of the narrow 

 ridge which intersects the work, and within the line of the embankment of which 

 it forms a part, is a small mound. From its top a full view of the surrounding 

 country, for a long distance up and down the river, may be obtained. A terrace, 

 apparently artificial, skirts the north-west side of the hill, thirty feet below the 

 embankment. As remarked in a former instance, this terrace may be natural ; it 

 has, however, all the regularity of a work of art. 



PLATE IX. No. I, 



FORTIFIED HILL, NEAR GRANVILLE, LICKING COUNTY, OHIO. 



The work here represented is situated two miles below the town of Granville, 

 Licking county, Ohio. It encloses the summit of a high hill, and embraces an area 

 of not far from eighteen acres. The embankment is, for the most part, carried 

 around the hill at a considerable distance below its brow, and is completely over- 

 looked from every portion of the enclosed area. Unlike all other hill-works which 

 have fallen under notice, the ditch occurs outside of the wall; the earth in the con- 

 struction of the latter having been thrown upwards and inwards. This is observed 

 equally at the points where the hill is steepest ; and the result has been, in the lapse 

 of time, that the ditch is almost obliterated, while the accumulating earth has filled 

 the space above the wall, so that the appearance of the defence, at these points, is 

 that of a high, steep terrace. The height of the wall varies at different places ; 

 where the declivity is gentle and the approach easy, it is highest, — perhaps eight 

 or ten feet from the bottom of the ditch ; elsewhere it is considerably less. The 

 embankment conforms generally to the shape of the hill. It is interrupted by 

 three gateways, two of which open towards springs of water, and the other, or 

 principal one, upon a long narrow spur, which subsides gradually into the valley of 

 Raccoon creek, affording a comparatively easy ascent. 



Upon the highest part of the ground enclosed in this work, is a small circle, one 

 Imndred feet in diameter, within which are two small mounds. There is also 

 another truncated mound, a little distance to the northward of the circle. The 

 mounds within the circle, upon excavation, were found, in common with all similar 

 structures occurring within enclosures, to contain altars. No enduring remains 

 seem to have been deposited iipon these altars, which were covered with ashes, 

 intermixed with small fragments of pottery. This is the only hill-work which has 



