Atop a plateau overlooking the Brush Creek Valley, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States. ... "The most famous of all such (effigy) mounds is the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County, 1,330 feet in length along its coils and averaging three feet in height."; --E.H. Roseboom & F.
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The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,330-foot-long, three-foot-high prehistoric effigy mound located on a plateau of the Serpent Mound crater along Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. Maintained withi...
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Serpent mound, stretching a quarter mile long, is the largest serpent effigy (representation of an image) known to this day. There are also serpent effigies located in Scotland and Ontario that are very similar.
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Field Trips > SW Region > ; Serpent Mound; To schedule your class visit please call 937-587-2796. Tours are offered Monday through Friday. ... This mound is located within an unusual geological area known as the Serpent Mound crypto-explosion structure. This area, nearly five miles in diameter, contains extremely faulted...
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Great Serpent Mound in a recent photograph with the oval or "eye" of the serpent at the right. Overlooking Brush Creek in Adams County, Great Serpent Mound now belongs to the Ohio Historical Society and, as Great Serpent Mound Park, is open to the public.
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; Photograph of prehistoric Serpent Mound earthworks ; (circa 800 AD) located in the SW quadrant of the impact structure; (length of mound = 800 m, 0.5 miles) ... 4. Bull, C. B., Corbato, C.E. and Zahn,J.C., Gravity survey of the Serpent Mound area, southern Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science, v. 67, pp. 359-372. 1967.
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Serpent Mound Mysteries ... Serpent Mound is the largest "serpent effigy" known to man. It is a 1/4 mile long mound shaped like a snake and located in Adams County, Ohio. Various alignments of the serpent correspond to astronomical features, such as alignments of the sun and moon.
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The Serpent Mound, or Alligator Mound, located in southern Ohio in the American midwest, is a large earthen spiral structure in the shape of a partially coiled serpent (or at least that's our interpretation). ... Visiting Serpent Mound...
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The most ancient of Ohio's forgotten mysteries, Adams County’s Serpent Mound, is not haunted in the classical sense. No vengeful ghost walks there at midnight (as far as anyone can tell); no axe murders are reenacted when the moon is full.
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News and information about the Great Serpent Mound of Southern Ohio. ... Truly a site to behold, the Great Serpent Mound in southwest Ohio is the worlds largest serpentine effigy mound yet discovered. Writhing in a seemingly effortless way, the mound winds through trees on a cliff overlooking the Brush Creek valley of...
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