Friday, August 9, 2024

Late Woodland Enclosure in Highbanks Park in Columbus, Ohio

 Late Woodland Enclosure in Highbanks Park in Columbus, Ohio


The earthwork in the Highbank Park, north of Columbus, Ohio in Franklin township was built a thousand years after the Adena burial mounds in the same park. Archaeologists have given the builders the erroneous name of the Cole Culture beginning around 800 A.D.

The embankment of the fortification is still visible within the park. It is best viewed in the winter months.


The earthwork of the fortification has an outer ditch where the earth was removed for the wall.