

6 E. G. Squier on the Ancient Monuments of Kentucky. 



2. An ancient enclosure in the "horseshoe" bend of Dick's 

 river, with two square bastions and a gateway on the narrow 

 ridge of the isthmus. The wall twenty feet high from the bot- 

 tom of the ditch. Several large mounds near the Shawnee 

 Spring. — (R.) 



Lincoln County. 



Wil 



ton, a square mound, six hundred feet in circumference, five feet 

 high and truncated. Many relics found in the vicinity. 



Caldwell County. — On Donaldson fork of Treaden water river, 

 is a work constructed by building a strong stone wall across the 

 isthmus of a peninsula formed by a bend in the stream. The 

 bluff is about one hundred feet high. The wall is about one 

 hundred and fifty feet long, four high and very broad. The en- 

 closed area is something less than an acre. — (R.) 



Scott County. 



Wither 



near the mouth of Dry run, a tributary of the Elkhorn. — (R.) 



2. A ditch across the neck of a peninsula formed by a bend in 

 the Elkhorn river, north bank, between Thompson's and Payne's 

 mills. 



3. Some works on the banks of Frankfort river, four miles 

 from Georgetown, near Craig's Mills. 



Bracken County. — 1. Large ancient cemetery on a "bottom" 

 of the Ohio river near Augusta. Said to be two miles long. — 

 (R., also Colli?is's Ky., p. 180.) 



2. A quarry of flint, anciently worked by the Indians. — (R.) 



Gallatin County. — On a hill, at the mouth of the Kentucky 

 river, a large enclosure. — (R.) 



Boone County. — 1. A large square work, on the bank of the 

 Ohio, near Bellevue, below the mouth of the Great Miami river. 

 Also some large mounds between Burlington and North Bend. 



2. An enclosure a little above the town of Petersburgh. The 

 wall extends from the abrupt bank of the Ohio, to the precipitous 

 bank of Taylor's creek. It is four feet high. The area of the 

 enclosed ground is twenty-five acres. — Collinses Kentucky, p. 180. 



Campbell County. — Near Covington, between Licking river 

 and Willis creek, an elliptical platform, eight feet high and seven 

 hundred and fifty feet long, commencing in a large conical mound, 

 twenty-five feet high. A large mound is situated on the top o( 

 "Big hill," north of Big-bone Lick. It is elliptical in shape, one 

 hundred and fifty feet long, depressed in the center. — (R.) 



Livingston County. — 1. A large enclosure and other monu- 

 ments at the mouth of the Cumberland river. 



2. Near the mouth of Hurricane creek, three-fourths of a mile 

 from the Ohio river, an octagon enclosure, 2852 feet in circum- 

 ference, containing four mounds. There are several other mon- 

 uments of small size, in the vicinity. 



