The Benham Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the

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. Located in modern Amberley Village in Hamilton County, the mound is an

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. A volume of Hamilton County history, published in the nineteenth century, described the Benham Mound, named for a local farmer, as "a fine, large mound," which measured high and with a circumference of approximately . Other dimensions exist that suggest a smaller structure that stood approximately in height and in diameter east and west and north to south.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1.

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: Somerset, 1999, 565. The mound is located on a hilltop that overlooks the valley of a tributary creek that flows west into the Mill Creek, which correlates with

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of the original Columbia Township, near the Montgomery turnpike (now

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DeLorme. ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. 7th ed.

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, 2004, 74. .), that is, near end of present-day Grand Vista Avenue. The

Norwood Mound Norwood Mound, also known as “Indian Mound” by locals, is a prehistoric Native American earthwork mound located in Norwood, Ohio, United States, an enclave city of Cincinnati in Hamilton County, Ohio. It was listed on the National Regist ...

lies approximately to the southwest. During the late nineteenth century, local residents partially excavated the mound and the ground around it; their diggings revealed significant amounts of

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and divers types of

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s, including axes, scrapers, chisels, and flint

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s. These findings, combined with the location of the mound itself, have led archaeologists to conclude that Benham Mound was built by people of the

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. Because of its archaeological value, the Benham Mound was listed on the

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in 1974.

References

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