Mount Horeb in Lexington, KY—a University of Kentucky-managed Adena site—has a roughly 300-ft inner enclosure with a 105-ft platform, 45-ft ditch, 13-ft embankment and 33-ft western causeway. A burial mound stood on the platform; postholes suggest a possible henge. Biggs, Greenup, KY, has a comparable ring-ditch-and-mound layout. Grave Creek preserves an original ring ditch. At Wolf Plains, Athens, OH—22 mounds, 10 ring ditches and 40-ft Harmar Mound—the video reports additional LiDAR finds. 🏺
Mount Horeb ring-ditch complex: causeway, platform and central Adena burial mound
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Key facts
- Mount Horeb's roughly 300-ft measurement applies to the smaller inner enclosure as a whole; the embankment itself is 13 ft wide.
- Inside the embankment is a 45-ft-wide, 8-ft-deep ditch surrounding a 105-ft-diameter circular platform, reached by a 33-ft-wide causeway on the western side.
- A burial mound stood on the platform. Postholes indicate a possible henge, but they do not establish that it was a woodhenge.
- Biggs Site in Greenup, Kentucky, has a comparable Adena ring-ditch and central burial-mound layout, although “almost identical” overstates the comparison.
- Grave Creek Mound preserves evidence of an original ring ditch.
- The Wolf Plains Group in Athens, Ohio, includes 22 Adena burial mounds and 10 ring ditches; Harmar Mound is about 40 ft tall. The video reports that recent LiDAR scans found additional ring ditches.
Sources
Mount Horeb Earthworks Complexen.wikipedia.org
It features a causewayed ring ditch with a circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform, surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide ...
Mt. Horeb Earthworks Complex, Kentuckymegalithic.co.uk
Mt. Horeb Site 1, situated above the Elkhorn Creek, consists of an inner henge (possibly a wood or stone henge) bounded by a ditch and circular ...
Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex Facts for Kidskids.kiddle.co
a wide ditch and an enclosure. a deep ditch was added around it. It was about 3,767 feet (1,148 meters) long, surrounded by a ditch that was 15 ...
Mt. Horeb - Discover Kentucky Archaeologyarchaeology.ky.gov
Mt. Horeb Earthwork is an Adena earthen enclosure located along Elkhorn Creek. Native peoples built it over 2000 years ago. It consists of a circular ditch and ...
Mount Horeb Earthworksah-archipedia.org
The 45-foot-wide inner ditch is 8 feet deep. The inner platform circle is 105 feet in diameter. At the western side of the circle is a 33-foot-wide causeway ...
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