Английская Википедия:Biggs site

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The Biggs site (15Gp8), also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South Shore in Greenup County, Kentucky. Biggs was originally a concentric circular embankment and ditch surrounding a central conical burial mound with a causeway crossing the ring and ditch. It was part of a larger complex, the Portsmouth Earthworks located across the Ohio River, now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of Portsmouth, Ohio.

Description

The site was surveyed and mapped by E. G. Squier in 1847 for inclusion in the seminal archaeological and anthrolopological work Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. They described the earthwork as being a causewayed embankment Шаблон:Convert high by Шаблон:Convert wide encircling a ditch Шаблон:Convert deep and Шаблон:Convert across. They encircled an area Шаблон:Convert in diameter. In the center of the ditch was a conical tumulus Шаблон:Convert high and Шаблон:Convert in diameter.

Gallery

• Squier and Davis illustration of the Biggs site

  Squier and Davis illustration of the Biggs site

• Squier and Davis map with Group D or the Biggs site

  Squier and Davis map with Group D or the Biggs site

• Scale aerial illustration of the Portsmouth Earthworks

  Scale aerial illustration of the Portsmouth Earthworks

See also

• Hardin Village site
• Lower Shawneetown
• Thompson site

External links

• Black and white photo of site, Jan 23, 1939, The William S. Webb Museum WPA/TVA Photograph Archive
• Working with the EM38 Earth Conductivity Meter: Geophysical Survey at the Hopeton Earthwork, Chillicothe, Ohio, May, 2001
• Scioto Historical : Portsmouth Earthworks Tour

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