﻿186 CATALOGUE OP PREHISTORIC WORKS. 



Scioto County. 



Stone graves lormerly existed on the bills below. the mouth of the 

 Scioto. 



Reported by Gerard Fovrke. 

 "Mounds and walls are numerous in this county ; a wall from 5 to 7 

 feet high extends from the Great to the Jjittle Scioio, a distance of 7 

 miles." 



Western Gazetteer (1817), p. 301. 

 Ancient works, 5 miles north of Portsmouth, consisting of (iircular 

 inclosure and inclosed effigy mound. 



Described and figured, Aiic. Mon., p;>. 83,84. PI. "29, No. 2. 

 Ancient works near Portsmouth, consisting of walls, mounds, etc. 

 Described by Caleb Atwater, Traus. Am. Antiq. Soc, vol. 1 (1820), pj). 151-156. 

 Anc. Moij., pp. 77,78, PL 27; further descrii)tioii, i>p. 78-82, by f>Tou]»s 

 (A, 13,C) ou PI. 28; <froui\s A and C of this pl.iu lie on the Keutucky side 

 of the river in Greennp County. Described fioiu another survey by G. S. 

 B. Hempstead, Jour. Authrop. Inst. G. Britain and Ireland, vol. 7 (1877-'78), 

 pp. 132-136, PI. 4, by R. B. Holt. Map by Hempstead in possession of the 

 Bureau. 

 Works 1^ miles northeast of Portsmouth. 

 Other works in the vicinity, Lawson Mound and ''Kinney Hill." 



Described in Antiq. of State of Oliio by Henry A. Shepherd (1887), p. 53-55. 

 (Possibly part of the above-mentioned group.) 



Ancient fireplaces at Blue Banks, above Portsmouth. 

 Others on the Ohio lliver, 2 miles below the mouth of the Scioto. 

 Described by T. H. Lewis, Am. Antiq., vol. 8 (1886), p. 167. 



Shelby County. 



A mound in the northern part of Van Buren Township. Exi)loied, 

 burnt human bones and balls found in it. 



Described by C. W. Williamson, Science, vol. 9 (1887), p. 135. 



Summit County. 



Ancient works (walls, ditches, caches, pits, and mounds) near North- 

 field. 



Described and figured by Col. Whittlesey, Tract.5, West. Res. Hist. Soc. (1871), 

 pp. 12, 13, PI. 4. 



Ancient walls, ditches, and caches near Northampton. 



Described and figured by Col. Whittlesey, Tract 5, West. Res. Hist. Soc. (1871), 

 pp. 15-18, Pis. 5, 6, and 7. 

 Ancient inclosure known as "Island Fort," at Copley. 



Brief description and figure by Col. Whittlesey, Tract 41, West. Res. Hist. Soc. 

 (1871), pp. 33,34. 

 An ancient fort on the land of William and Randolph Robinson, near 

 the south line of Boston Township, ou the east bank of the Cuyahoga 

 River, and a mound a mile up the valley therefrom on the land of Na- 

 than Point. 



Described and figured by Col. Whittlesey, Tract 5, West. Res. Hist. Soc. C1871), 

 pp. 13-15 and 39. 

 Rock shelters reported .3 miles west of Hudson village. Contained 

 ashes, human bones, stone implements, etc. 



