16 ANCIENT WORKS IN OHIO. VII. 



PLATE VI. No. 2. 



FORTIFIED POSITION, WEYMOUTH, OHIO. 



At "Weymouth, five miles north-east of Medina Centre, Medina County, the east 

 branch of the Eocky Kiver, which is about fifty feet wide, passes rapidly through 

 a narrow gulf in the rocks, from forty to fifty feet deep, with sides nearly vertical, 

 and composed of soapstone, and thin bands of sandstone interstratified. The fall 

 of the stream is estimated at one hundred and twenty-five feet in a mile and a half, 

 along which numerous mills and machinery are placed. 



On a narrow point, protected on all sides but one by the precipice and the stream, 

 the mound-builders entrenched themselves behind three walls of earth, with exte- 

 rior ditches, at present two and three feet deep. The embankments are also from 

 two to three feet high, and are without openings or gateways. 



The occupants must have passed in and out of the work by steps, leading over 

 the walls. In excavating, the rock is found at the depth of two and three feet. 

 The space inside the parallels was used by the present occupants as a burying- 

 ground ; but is now abandoned, because graves cannot be sunk to the usual depth 

 without cutting away the gritty sandstone beneath. 



It would be difficult to find a position more inaccessible to a foe. 



From the inner wall to the point of the hill is three hundred feet ; across the 

 neck on the outside parallel is two hundred feet. The space inside the work is, 

 therefore, not large. The soil is a stifl" clay. On the south and east the ground 

 rises, but not rapidly. 



There is a small mound, 7n inside the enclosure, made partly of earth and 

 partly of stone, and also others outside on the north, very small, and filled with 

 bones. 



In the crevices of the walls hundreds of yellow rattlesnakes had their winter 

 abode, until the quarries began to be worked, and their retreats were invaded by 

 the workmen, who killed them in great numbers. 



PLATE VI No. 3. 



ENCLOSURE HALF A MILE EAST OP GRANGER, MEDINA COUNTY, OHIO. 



About four miles south-east of Weymouth, in the township of Granger, in the 

 same county, is an enclosure of earth now nearly obliterated. It may be seen by a 



