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	Serpent Mound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mound is located in a unique cryptoexplosion structure that contains faulted and folded bedrock, which is usually either produced by a meteorite or volcanic explosion.
		The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the snake’s coils align with the winter solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise.
		In 1967, the Ohio Historical Society opened the Serpent Mound Museum, in close proximity to the mound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serpent_Mound (1095 words)

	Artcom Museums Tour: Serpent Mound State Memorial, Peebles, OH
		Serpent Mound, an embankment of earth resembling a snake nearly a quarter-mile long, is the largest and finest serpent effigy in North America.
		The mound represents a gigantic snake uncoiling in seven deep curves along a bluff overlooking Ohio Brush Creek; the oval embankment near the end of the bluff probably represents the open mouth of the serpent as it strikes.
		Serpent Mound was not built over any burials or remnants of living areas, nor were there any artifacts found in it to identify which prehistoric culture constructed it.
	www.artcom.com /Museums/nv/sz/45660.htm (898 words)

	OHS - Places - Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Atop a plateau overlooking the Brush Creek Valley, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States.
		The head of the serpent is aligned to the summer solstice sunset and the coils also may point to the winter solstice sunrise and the equinox sunrise.
		Serpent Mound is on State Route 73, six miles north of State Route 32 and 20 miles south of Bainbridge in Adams County.
	www.ohiohistory.org /places/serpent (340 words)

	Archaeological Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Serpent mound, stretching a quarter mile long, is the largest serpent effigy (representation of an image) known to this day.
		The bottom of the mound is constructed of clay and rock and the soil covering the rock is four to five feet high.
		Another indication that the Adena Indians built serpent mound was the Adena burial mounds that were located near Serpent Mound.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/northamerica/serpent.html (492 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Spring 2003: Serpent Mound Part I: Great Serpent
		This rendering of the serpent mound acropolis is from Squier and Davis' classic survey of Native American mound structures, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, originally published in 1848.
		In layman's terms, Serpent Mound was strategically placed to command a view of the foothills of the Appalachian mountains to the east, and the open, fertile plains in the west.
		Serpent Mound State Memorial is located 10 miles north of the town of Peebles in Adams County, Ohio.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2003/Spring/SerpentMound (3838 words)

	The Seattle Times: Travel: Ancient earthwork in Ohio still baffles researchers
		The Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States and one of Ohio's only effigy mounds.
		The crescent-shaped mound — it appears to be in the shape of an undulating snake with a spiral-coiled tail — sits atop a plateau 90 feet above wooded Ohio Brush Creek.
		The grass-covered mound is 2 to 6 feet high and 20 to 25 feet wide as it stretches nearly a quarter mile.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/travel/2002016216_mound29.html (816 words)

	MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 2003: Serpent Mound Part II: Sacred Serpent
		In the process of excavating this mound, it was found that it was filled with layer after layer of burials, some of which were laid out in wooden sepulchers that had been, at the time of burial, seven feet wide, ten feet long, and tall enough for a man to stand in.
		The Great Serpent Mound, then, was likely the setting for an annual ritual wherein the ancient Hopewell (and possibly the Fort Ancient peoples) regularly reenacted their most important annual ceremony in order to maintain a harmonic balance between heaven and earth and ensure the continued fertility of the land.
		As we saw in Part I, the Serpent Mound was built on a prominent clifftop in an area that is important and unusual in several respects.
	www.mysteriousworld.com /Journal/2003/Summer/SerpentMound (7037 words)

	OHT - Field Trips - Southwest - Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This mound is located within an unusual geological area known as the Serpent Mound crypto-explosion structure.
		Serpent Mound, an effigy mound that appears to represent an uncoiling serpent, is the largest and finest effigy in the United States.
		It is generally believed the mound symbolized a religious or mythical principle for its builders.
	www.ohiohistoryteachers.org /03/04/sw07.shtml (225 words)

	Serpent Mound Shatter Cone
		Similar effigies are located in Scotland and Ontario, but this place is quite unique. The Serpent Mound effigy is the largest effigy erected in the United States, and as the name implies, it has the shape of a serpent snake.
		The bottom of the mound is made of clay and rock with soil is piled on it four to five feet high.
		The Serpent Mound impact structure is a 6 km.
	www.meteoritearticles.com /colserpentmoundshattercone.html (236 words)

	Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Great Serpent Mound was treated with great reverence by the Adena, who buried their dead beneath dozens of small mounds in the vicinity, but never inside the mound itself.
		There’s little doubt that the Serpent Mound was used in religious ceremonies by the Adena, and possibly by the later Hopewell Indians, who built their own elaborate earthworks in the area.
		When settlers first discovered the mound, there was a fire-scorched stone monument in the egg-shaped head, which probably means it was used as an altar of some sort.
	www.forgottenoh.com /Counties/Adams/serpent.html (534 words)

	Ace Weekly
		Secondly, this is the one hundredth anniversary of Frederic Ward Putnam's bequest of Serpent Mound to the state of Ohio.
		The mound is largest at the reptile's mouth, while its tail slowly dwindles into a foot-high coil near where I am standing.
		Serpent Mound was molded mostly from hard clay and set with stone in places where erosion was most likely.
	www.aceweekly.com /Backissues_ACEWeekly/010524/cover_story010524.html (1491 words)

	Archive-guides - Mounds, Mystery and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Serpent Mound was built by the Adena Indians sometime between 800 B.C. and A.D. 1 on a site overlooking Ohio Brush Creek.
		The mounds are surrounded by a two-foot wall of earth in the shape of a square with rounded edges.
		The mounds were built sometime between 200 B.C. and A.D. 500 as the burial grounds for the leaders of the Hopewell tribe.
	www.ohiou.edu /southeastohio/marchives/archiveg12.html (1002 words)

	Great Serpent Mound, 500-1000 A.D. \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Effigy mounds, earthworks in the shape of animals and birds, were raised in North America in areas that now correspond to parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Ohio.
		The grandest of the representational mounds is the depiction of an undulating snake, perhaps a stylized rattlesnake, in Adams County, Ohio, known as the Great Serpent Mound.
		The oval at the mouth of the serpent was initially considered to be something being swallowed, perhaps an egg, but another view is that it is the eye of the serpent.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/serp/hd_serp.htm (436 words)

	Warren County, Ohio, serpent effigy
		The mound is situated in the valley of the Little Miami river opposite Stubbs Station, about half way between Morrow and South Lebanon adjoining the farm of the Baker family, who have been residents in the locality for over a hundred years.
		A cross-section of the mound "revealed a layer of large lime and flat river stones, 20 feet wide, placed on the level surface, and the earth embankment was built over it.
		Wright, G.F. A new serpent mound in Ohio.
	www.herper.com /Warrenmound.html (1247 words)

	Great Serpent Mound of Southern Ohio
		Representing an unwinding serpent, the mound is sheathed in mystery and controversy.
		Bucher saw similarities in the land forms at the Serpent Mound to barely recognizable volcanic upheavals in Germany.
		Several writers have suggested that the serpent is a model of the constellation we call the Little Dipper, its tail coiled about the north star.
	www.greatserpentmound.com (909 words)

	Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the few effigy mounds in Ohio, Serpent Mound is the largest and finest serpent effigy in the United States.
		Serpent Mound lies on a plateau overlooking the valley of Brush Creek.
		Many questions surround the meaning of Serpent Mound, but there is little doubt it symbolized some religious or mythical principle for its builders.
	www.placesohio.com /ohio-historic-sites/SerpentMound (215 words)

	Hints Of A Cosmic Crash At Serpent Mound
		And its presence 1,412 feet beneath the forests and farmlands near Serpent Mound in south-central Ohio -- already on par with Britain's Stonehenge and Egypt's pyramids as one of Earth's most mysterious manmade structures -- adds to a puzzle shrouded in legend and lore for centuries.
		At Serpent Mound, the levels measured were 10 times beyond what is usually present in the Earth's crust.
		Quite possibly the mound with the serpent figure is like a "memorial marker" for the event.
	www.rense.com /general64/cosm.htm (1588 words)

	EARTHSONGS: The Journal of the Society of Celtic Shamans, Volume 7, Issue 3, Lughnasadh 2003, Copyright (c) 2002
		When the map of the Serpent Mound is placed in conjunction with the constellation Draco, and including the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor), the lunar and solar alignments of Serpent Mound converge toward the "dipper" part of the Little Dipper (Figure 4).
		This illustration is simply to point out that Stonehenge and Serpent Mound may have been built to the same scale, given the understanding of the natural degrees of separation characterizing the lunar and solar horizon viewing points.
		She is a member of Friends of the Mounds, a group organized to protect and preserve the Octagon Mound in Newark, Ohio which is currently being leased by the Ohio Historical Society to a private country club for use as a golf course.
	www.faeryshaman.org /es73/es73art1.htm (1075 words)

	Breaking News!
		Answer: The Serpent Mound, or Great Serpent Mound, is an ancient Native American earthwork in Adams County in southeastern Ohio that is said to be the largest prehistoric effigy of a snake in the United States.
		The mound averages 4 or 5 feet in height, 25 feet in width and is more than 1,300 feet long.
		Recent radiocarbon dating, though, suggests that Serpent Mound was erected much later, between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1200, with one researcher dating it around 1070, about the time the Normans conquered England.
	www.neara.org /MiscReports/12-02-03.htm (339 words)

	ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT MOUND CRYPTOEXPLOSION STRUCTURE: EVIDENCE FROM X-RAY DIFFRACTION STUDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Serpent Mound disturbance is a nearly circular geologic feature approximately 8 km in diameter located in Adams County, Ohio near the intersection of Adams, Highland, and Pike Counties.
		The rocks at the Serpent Mound disturbance exhibit complex faulting in contrast to the fairly flat-lying sedimentary rock beds of the surrounding country.
		The Serpent Mound disturbance is referred to as a cryptoexplosion structure and is though to have originated from some powerful explosive event.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001NC/finalprogram/abstract_5634.htm (345 words)

	KY Stone Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Brisbin states: "The precipitous hill where the serpent is placed is 840 feet above mean sea level with the majority of the serpent's body at the 790 foot level...
		The head of the serpent has been damaged by both pits excavated into the rock by unknown individuals and by the construction of a radio tower access road.
		Sanders, S.L. The stone serpent mound of Boyd County, Kentucky: an investigation of a stone effigy structure.
	www.herper.com /KYmound.html (541 words)

	Serpent Mound (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		All of the previous mounds where we had dowsed were conical mounds that displayed a similar pattern of energy.
		As we proceeded along the curves that represented the body of the serpent, we started detecting lines that were perpendicular to the serpent's spine, similar to the shape of a ribcage.
		In the museum, there was a display of a serpent's skeleton arranged in the shape of the mound.
	members.ee.net /jconley/article080.htm (257 words)

	Serpent Mound State Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, one of the largest serpent effigies in North America is found within its borders-the renowned Serpent Mound.
		Serpent Mound is an awesome 1/4 mile long mound of earth shaped like a gigantic snake uncoiling in seven, deep curves.
		Rumors have flourished in an attempt to solve the mystery of Serpent Mound's existence.
	www.adamscountytravel.org /serpentmound.htm (298 words)

	Emerald Green... Recordings inspired by place since 1986 \| Serpent Mound
		This 1,330 foot long mound was created by the Adena people in the first century BC.
		This serpentine design is the oldest and largest surviving raised earth mound in North America.
		"Serpent Mound" is a slice of Native American minimalism from Rusty Crutcher.
	www.emeraldgreensound.com /serpentmound.html (296 words)

	Travel to Ohio-Adams County Official Travel and Tourism Site-Ohio Covered Bridges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Serpent Mound is one of the largest and most awesome serpent effigies found in the entire United States.
		There is a museum containing exhibits on the mound and the geology of the surrounding area.
		The Mound is located on the grounds occupied by the Killen electric generating station.
	www.adamscountytravel.org /attractions.htm (1633 words)

	Rusty Crutcher : Serpent Mound - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Serpent Mound is the fifth of Rusty Crutcher's "Sacred Sites" series.
		The closing "Breath of Night" layers crickets and serpent breaths, while bass and tenor voices circle each other serenely; all are embraced by a dome of resonant sound.
		The vibratory effect of the crickets and the warmth of the drone reminds one of the life-wave of vertebrae, the pull of tissue, and the length of the serpent's sound.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,270995,00.html (192 words)

	celebrate solstice at the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio (the head aligns at sunset on solstice) on 43 Things
		celebrate solstice at the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio (the head aligns at sunset on solstice)
		After walking around the serpent mound and then hiking the nearby forested trails, I settled into the lawn near the serpent’s head to read some books on the earthworks.
		They were even allowed to stand directly on the mound by the ranger (normally, people are told to stay off the mound to prevent erosion), thus getting the best view.
	www.43things.com /things/view/186355 (1210 words)

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