Monday, January 15, 2024

The Largest Dakota Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound in Ohio is Photographed Before Being Destroyed by Archaeologists

 

The Largest Dakota Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound in Ohio is Photographed Before Being Destroyed by Archaeologists


Located within the North Fork, Earthwork in Ross County, Ohio


Note the auto that gives you an idea of just how large this burial mound and earthwork were. The northern earthen wall extended up the ridge in the background. To see all of the visible burial mounds and earthworks in Ross County, Ohio



Squire and Davis map of the North Fork Works. It is now a park, but the only remaining part of the earthwork is the wall of the ridge on the north side.