Biggs Site
| Biggs Site 15 Gp 8 | |
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Group C of the Portsmouth Earthworks by Squier and Davis | |
  Biggs Site 15 Gp 8 | |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 38°44′8.70″N 82°54′11.92″W / 38.7357500°N 82.9033111°W |
| Country |
 USA |
| Region | Greenup County, Kentucky |
| Nearest town | South Shore, Kentucky |
| History | |
| Culture | Adena culture |
| Excavation and maintenance | |
| Responsible body | private |
| Architecture | |
| Architectural styles | earthworks |
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 the modern 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]
See also
References
- ↑ Applegate, Darlene (2008), "Chapter 5:Woodland period", in Pollack, David, The Archaeology of Kentucky:an update (PDF) 1, Kentucky Heritage Council, pp. 524–525, ISBN 978-1-934492-28-4
- ↑ E. G. Squier and E. H. Davis (1848). Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Smithsonian Institution.
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