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Biggs Site
View on map:38.735750°N 82.903311°W
Description
Biggs Site
The
Biggs Site
(15Gp8), also known as the
Portsmouth Earthworks Group C
, is an
Adena culture
archaeological site
located near
South Shore
in
Greenup County, Kentucky
. Group C was originally a large series of concentric circular embankments and ditches surrounding a central conical
burial mound
. It was part of a larger complex, the
Portsmouth Earthworks
located across the
Ohio River
, now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of
Portsmouth, Ohio
.
[1]
The site was surveyed and mapped by
E. G. Squier
in 1847 for inclusion in the seminal archaeological and anthrolopological work
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
.
[2]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggs Site
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