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Title: The mound builders : being an account of a remarkable people that once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi, together with an investigation into the archæology of Butler County, O.
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson), 1848-1939
Subjects: Mound-builders
Publisher: Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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limestone. In the township are three important enclosures, allnear the river, the largest of which is that situated onthe farms of P. Bittencr and J. L. Garver, section twelveand marked L on the map. The illustration (Fig. 53) istaken from a survey made in 1836 by James McBride.The hill upon which this woik is located is the most ele-vated of any in the vicinity, and constitutes a spur, thesummit of which is about two hundred and fifty feet high.It is a sliort distance from the river, and surrounded on allsides, save a narrow space at the north, by deep ravines.From the line of fortification the hill is sloping, but beforereaching the bottom of the ravines it becomes steeper, andin places presenting almost inaccessible declivities. Onthe north the descent is inconsiderable, making it easy ofaccess. The embankment, composed of a stifFclay mingled ROSS TOWNSHIP. 185 with, stone, and having a height of five feet by thirty-fivefeet base, skirting along the brow of the hill, and generally
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Fig. 53.—Fortified Hill.conforming to its outline, encloses an area of a little oversixteen acres, the interior of which gradnally rises to theheight of twenty-six feet above the base of the wall. It 186 r.oss TOWNSHIP. has no accompanying ditch, the material composing thewall having probably been taken up from the surfaceor out of the dug-holes, which occur at various pointswithin the wall. These dug-holes, or excavations, areuniformly near the gateways, some of which are sixtyfeet over, filled up with mud to a depth of about ten feet.The line of wall has four gateways, each twenty feetwide ; one opening to the north, and the others towardsthe south. Three of these are completely covered Mithinner lines of embankment, the most intricate being thatat the north, and marked X in the engraving. Beyondthe gateway is a crescent wall extending almost entirelyacross the isthmus. Within the works are four morelines of wall, which not only protect the gateway, but atthis point render the for

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