Ohio Great Serpent Mound, Located in Adams Co., OH

"The most famous of all such (effigy) mounds is the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County, 1,330 feet in length along its coils and averaging three feet in height."

--E.H. Roseboom & F. P. Weisenburger
A History of Ohio

Picture on right from Squier and Davis (1848)

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Other Serpent Effigy Mounds

Wisconsin serpent mound:

Peet, S.D. 1886. The serpent effigy in Wisconsin. American Antiquarian 8: 247-248.

Reisinger, M.E. 1934. The serpent effigy on Medicine Butte. Wisconsin Archaeologist 14: 23-24.

Kentucky serpent mounds:

Duffield, L.F. and E. Heffernan. 1974. Archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Paintsville and Yatesville Reservoirs in Johnson, Morgan, and Lawrence Counties, Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, Museum of Anthropology.

Kentucky Heritage Council. 1985. National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: 15MF355, Spratt Stoneworks. Frankfort, KY.

Minnesota serpent mound:

Williamson, A.W. 1897. The serpent effigy in Minnesota. American Antiquarian 19: 151-154.

South Dakota serpent mounds:

The Blood Run Site - serpent effigy was destroyed

Abbott, James T. A Re-evaluation of Boulderflow as a Relative Dating Technique for Superficial Boulder Features. Plains Anthropologist 33, no. 119 (1988): 113-118.

Helmick, John M. Stone Mounds and Serpent of Hughes County, South Dakota. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences 6, 1889-1897 (1897): 170-171.

Georgia Serpent Mound

Kelly, A.R. 1979. Hopewellian studies in American Archaeology: Hopewell after Twenty Years. In Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conference, edited by D. Brose and N. Greber, pp. 1-2. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press.

West Virginia Serpent Mound

Wilkins, G.R. 1981. A rock serpent mound in Logan County, West Virginia. Tennessee Anthropological Newsletter 6(4): 1-4.

Mexico

Copper Canyon, Sonora - serpent effigy mentioned in travel agency website

Canada

Serpent Mounds Park, Ontario - not a true serpent effigy

These are Great Links:

• Great Serpent Mound
• The People's Path
• Bibliography of Ohio's effigy mounds
• Ohio's Alligator Mound
• The Warren County, Ohio, Serpent Mound
• A Stone Serpent Mound in KY?
• Misdescribed effigy mounds in Ohio
• Animal track effigy mounds?