Miami County, Indiana Oto Sioux Hopewell Burial Mound
This large mound is situated near a small creek in the lowland that may have been flooded when the mound was built. It sits on a nearly circular elevation that may have been artificially cut or constructed to elevate the mound above the floodplain. Locals have called it the “top hat” mound because of the circular platform on which it sits. The property owner said that about ten years ago, her husband was cultivating the adjacent field when he hit a bed of cobbles that was laid out in a square. After removing these, he found underneath a stone tablet with inscriptions that looked “Chinese.” The tablet was next to the house for years but got mixed up with stones being removed from the field and buried in a large rock pile. Per the request of the owner of this property, the location is not given in fear that University archaeologists may destroy the mound.
This Oto Sioux burial mound was located in a rare book published in the early 1980s called "Wheels of Time." The author tracked down many of the burial mounds in Northwest Indiana and was invaluable in finding this site and many others in this part of the state.
The location of the burial mounds in the County: "
In the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 2 are two old mounds about eight feet high and thirty feet in diameter. . ." West of their place, in the north center party Section 5, are two similar mounds. . . South of there, on the west side of the center of Section 15, is a larger mound, probably fifteen feet high and fifty feet in diameter. All these mounds are near the creek; headwaters to Lake Manitou over in Fulton County. For all 85 burial mounds and earthworks in Indiana www.nephilimgiants.net : 121 Photos of Burial Mounds in Ohio Including the :Address Restricted" Sites
