The Arledge Mounds are a pair of
Native American mounds in the south central part of the
U.S. state of
Ohio
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. Located near
Circleville in
Pickaway County
Pickaway County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,539. Its county seat is Circleville. Its name derives from the Pekowi band of Shawnee Indians, who inhabited the area. (See List of Ohio count ...
,
the two mounds lie in the middle of a farm field, far from any roads. These two mounds are disparate in size: while the smaller mound's height is , the other's is , and their diameters are approximately and respectively.
[Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999.]
Most unusual is the proximity of the mounds to each other — while many groups of mounds are known in Ohio,
they are not typically connected at the base as these two mounds are; only the Arledge Mounds and the
McMurray Mounds, which straddled the border between
Franklin
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counties, are known to have been conjoined. Although these mounds have not been
excavated, archaeologists have proposed that they were built by the
Adena culture, who are known to have built the McMurray Mounds.
As undisturbed works of the Adena or some other mound building culture, the Arledge Mounds are potentially a valuable
archaeological site
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. In recognition of this fact, they were listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1974.
See also
*
List of burial mounds in the United States
This is a list of notable burial mounds in the United States built by Native Americans. Burial mounds were built by many different cultural groups over a span of many thousands of years, beginning in the Late Archaic period and continuing through ...
References
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Adena culture
Archaeological sites in Ohio
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Geography of Pickaway County, Ohio
National Register of Historic Places in Pickaway County, Ohio
Mounds in Ohio