The masterpieces of the Ohio mound builders : the hilltop fortifications, including Fort Ancient / by E.O. Randall.
- E. O. Randall
- Date:
- 1916
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The masterpieces of the Ohio mound builders : the hilltop fortifications, including Fort Ancient / by E.O. Randall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![buried. General Harrison was a man of unusual literary and historical acquirements, and had he never been known as a general or president he would have won distinction as a scholar. He pro¬ foundly studied the Ohio Mound Builders and the Ohio Indians and we are indebted to him for much valuable investigations and information on those subjects. He carefully surveyed “Miami Fort,” giving his results in a scholarly address, pub¬ lished (1839) in the Transactions of the His¬ torical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. We give his plan as adopted and reproduced by Squier and Davis. The site of this fort is striking]v analogous to the hill forts heretofore described. The Great Miami, flowing southwest, debouches into the Ohio at a sharp angle. An upland elevation, some two hundred feet or more in height, thrusts its nose prominently out into this land angle, separating the two rivers. On the peak of this elevation is the for¬ tification. It is very nearly a parallelogram in shape, conforming to the summit contour of the hill. The walls are unusually massive and strong, the mean cross-section being considerably in excess of that of any other enclosure in the state. These ramparts, in places sadly depleted, are in large meas¬ ure well preserved and though Here giant weeds a passage scare allow and sections of the protective works have been Swept into wrecks anon by Time’s ungentle tide;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29827711_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
