Biggs site
15 Gp 8
Artists conception of the Biggs site
Biggs site is located in Kentucky
Biggs site
Location within Kentucky today
LocationSouth Shore, Kentucky, Greenup County, Kentucky,  USA
RegionGreenup County, Kentucky
Coordinates38°44′2.7″N 82°56′4″W / 38.734083°N 82.93444°W / 38.734083; -82.93444
History
CulturesAdena culture, Ohio Hopewell culture
Site notes
Architecture
Architectural stylesearthworks, 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, now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of Portsmouth, Ohio.[1][2]

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]

See also

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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