Biggs site

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Biggs site
15 Gp 8
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Artist's conception of the Biggs site
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Location within Kentucky today
Location South Shore, Kentucky,  Greenup County, Kentucky, Flag of the United States.svg  USA
Region Greenup County, Kentucky
Coordinates 38°44′2.7″N82°56′4″W / 38.734083°N 82.93444°W / 38.734083; -82.93444
History
Cultures Adena culture, Ohio Hopewell culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural styles earthworks, causewayed ring ditch
Responsible body: private

The Biggs site (15Gp8), also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South Shore in Greenup County, Kentucky. Biggs was originally a concentric circular embankment and ditch surrounding a central conical burial mound with a causeway crossing the ring and ditch. It was part of a larger complex, the Portsmouth Earthworks, located across the Ohio River and now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of Portsmouth, Ohio. [1] [2]

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Description

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 . They described the earthwork as being a causewayed embankment 5 feet (1.5 m) high by 30 feet (9.1 m) wide encircling a ditch 6 feet (1.8 m) deep and 25 feet (7.6 m) across. They encircled an area 90 feet (27 m) in diameter. In the center of the ditch was a conical tumulus 8 feet (2.4 m) high and 40 feet (12 m) in diameter. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Davidson, Matthew J. (September 28, 2019), "The Native American Farming Landscape of Eastern Kentucky: Part 2", 30 Days of Kentucky Archaeology, Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists
  2. ↑ Applegate, Darlene (2008), "Chapter 5:Woodland period" (PDF), in Pollack, David (ed.), The Archaeology of Kentucky:an update, vol. 1, Kentucky Heritage Council, pp. 524–525, ISBN   978-1-934492-28-4, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-08 (author confused Biggs as being Group C, when it is in actuality Group D)
  3. ↑ E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis (1848). Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley . Smithsonian Institution.

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