12 ANCIENT WORKS IN OHIO. VU. 



Among many mounds and embankments, this people have left very few exca- 

 vations ; thus indicating a want of metallic implements, of the size and kind 

 necessary to remove solid earth. This is likewise manifest, from the fact that no 

 quarries of rock have been discovered which can be referred to their labors. The 

 mounds and walls of stone which they have left, are formed of loose and small 

 stones, such as a man, or at most two men, could lift, and thrown together loosely, 

 without being trimmed or cut. 



PLATE V. No. 1. 



WORKS IN ADAMS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO. 



A VERT few words will supply what is wanting in the figure, to give a proper 

 idea of this work. The lines are low and almost destroyed by the plough, 

 being, at the time of survey, at most only two feet high. The situation is dry and 

 pleasant, an agreeable place for a village, convenient to water ; the soil consists of 

 sand and gravel. The figures 4, 8, 10, &c., indicate the position and height of 

 mounds. These are of earth, excepting two, marked m, m, which are of sandstone 

 and limestone. 



PLATE V. No. 2. 



WORK NEAR JACKTOWN, LICKING COUNTY, OHIO. 



This work is situated eighty rods north of the National Road, and two miles east 

 of Jacktown, Licking County, Ohio. 



The ground here is elevated, the enclosure surrounding the summit of a hill, not 

 very abrupt ; the soil is a mass of broken sand-rock. From the top of the inner 

 wall, e, in the section a h, to the bottom of the ditch between the walls, the dis- 

 tance is three feet, generally less; both the height of the wall and depth of the ditch, 

 varying at different points. Of the entrances, c, c, c, the northern is the widest, 

 being forty feet; the eastern twenty-eight, and the other twenty-two feet, and 

 without mounds or barriers. The circles at figures 1, 2, 3, 4, represent mounds 

 of stones, such as one, or at most, two men might carry, loosely thrown together. 

 No. 1 was eighteen feet high, with a base of ninety feet diameter. No. 2, fifteen 

 feet height and seventy feet base. No. 3, the same. Their bases are not regular 

 circles, and all of them are now (May, 1838) much injured by the inhabitants of 



