Photographing the "Lost" Adena Earthworks at Mounds State Park in Indiana

Two Earthworks in Mounds State Park are unmarked within the park. For more photos of Mounds State Park For all the mounds at Mounds State Park with photos www.nephilimgiants.net 

A small circle can still be discerned adjacent to the large henge at Mounds State Park. This small earthework is not marked.

“Fig. B is 238 feet south, 30 degrees east of the center of A; is 33 feet across has two gateways; the bank is 2-1/2 feet high, and has no ditch.

This is a diagram of the two earthwork that are opposite the northern henge at Mounds State Park. It is a mystery why these two earthwork atre not marked or preserved. Instead of preserving them they built the hiking trail over the top of the outer embankment of the earthwork to the right.

There is no evidence of the circle but the outer bank of the henge can still be seen on and adjacent to the trail. Why Mounds State Park does not preserve this mound is criminal. Indiana preserves none of the ancient earthworks in the State.

  “The works presented on Plate F are near that last described. A is a plain circle, 150 feet in diameter; it lies in a cultivated field and is being fat obliterated. B, on the same plate, is in a tolerable state of preservation; its longer diameter is 106 feet, and 48 feet across either end and is slightly constricted at the middle; wall about 2 feet high; ditch on the inside 15 feet wide; gateway (C) is 15 feet wide. The part on the east side of the section line lies in the woods, and is very well preserved. On the west side of the fence, the land is cultivated, and the embankment is fast being destroyed. These works, with that on Plate K, are close to the bluff of the river, which is here also composed of glacial drift, and is 75 f

“Fig. B is 238 feet south, 30 degrees east of the center of A; is 33 feet across has two gateways; the bank is 2-1/2 feet high and has no ditch.