﻿182 CATALOGUE OF rREHISTORtC WORKS. 



Eartliworks, comprising three lines of embankments with corre- 

 sponding interior ditches, near the north line of the county, on the right 

 bank of the Scioto River. 



Brief notice and figure. Anc. M()n.,p. 36, PL 14, No. 1. 

 Ancient works at Circleville (inclosures, walls, mounds, etc). 



Described and lignred by Atwater, Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc. vol. 1 (18-20), pp. 

 141-14.5, and 177-179, PL 5. Anon, ^yrite^ Am. Jour. Sci, and Art., Ist 

 ser., vol. 2.5 (1834), pp. 238-240. Western Gazetteer (1817), p. 2'J8. Howe's 

 Hist. ColL Ohio (1847), pp. 402, 403 and 410, 411. Anc. Mon., p. GO, Fig. 10, 

 Warden's liecberclies, p. 23. Drake's Inds. N. A. (15tb ed.),p. Gil. Am. 

 Antiq., vol. 5 (1883), p. 234. 



Pike County. 



Ancient works at Piketon, consisting of parallel walls, graded way 

 and mounds. 



Described and figured by Atwater, Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc, vol. 1 (1820), iip. 

 193, 194. Howe's Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847), p. 413. (This author remarks: 

 " On Lew Evan's map of the Middle British Colonies, published in 175.5, is 

 laid down on the right bank of the river a short distance below the site ot 

 Piketon, a place called Haricane Tom's. It might have been the abode of 

 an Indian chief or a French trader's station.)" Anc. Mon., pp. 88-90, Fig. 20 

 and PL 31, No. 1, and p. 171, Fig. 57, No. 3. MacLean's Monud Builders, 

 pp. 37-38, Fig. 4. Described by H. A. Shepherd, Antiq. of the State of 

 Ohio, p. 61. 



Ancient earthworks in Seal Township. 



Described and figured. Anc. Mon., pp. 66, 67, PL 21. Also by Cyrus Thomas, 

 Bull, on " Cir., Sq. and Oct. Earthworks of Ohio" (1890), pp. 14, 15. 



Mound 1 mile south of Waverly, on east side of Portsmouth pike and 

 near Scioto Eiver. 



Two mounds at the northern boundary of the town of Jasper. 



Deep circular excavation one-fourth mile east of Piketon, now 10 feet 

 deep, and 210 feet in circumference. Earth seems to Lave been thrown 

 out upon the brink. 



Large mound on Volgamore's land, 3J miles from Piketon, 100 feet in 

 diameter and about 12 feet high, but somewhat reduced by working. 

 It is 300 yards west from the pike ; 200 yards directly north of this 

 Volgamore mound is a circular excavation now about 8 feet deep. 



Excavation, about 1 mile northeast of Piketon and about one-third of 

 a mile on high land east of the Scioto River, on Charles Cisslas's place. 

 Dug out of apex of almost jierfect conical hill, with hills rising to a 

 higher elevation surrounding it. Dimensions and sections thereof were 

 taken by Mr. James D. Middleton. 



Reported by H. L. Reynolds. 



Small mound on the land of Dr. T. S. Barnes, on the third terrace of 

 the Scioto, 4^ miles south of Piketon. 



Another, one-fourth of a mile north of the above, on Henry Sargent's 

 land. 



Double mound, on two very symmetrical conical mounds, on Judge 

 Van Meter's farm, 3 miles below Piketon. One is 10 feet high, the 

 other about 8 feet. 



