The Great Mound

The Great Mound. Crossing the Great Miami River on Liberty Fairfield Rd you travel thru low flat bottomland for a couple miles. The entire time you can see a high ridge rising in front of you. When you finally climb the ridge on your right sits the Great Mound.  88 feet tall and a circumference of 511 feet and a total volume of nearly 825,000 cubic feet!  Built by the Adena Culture, the Great Mound has been reduced by multiple instances of unofficial diggings. In 1879, locals removed a small portion of the mound's summit, finding artifacts such as bones and the remnants of fires. Later years saw the destruction of a more significant part of the top; today, only about 75% of the mound is free from disturbances. But that's 75%, why with Miami, Ohio, UC and UD universities so close such an amazing place hasn't been properly examined is completely beyond me. Instead it just sits, a forgotten overgrown hill in an old field. I'm sure not one person in a thousand driving by even knows what it is. Even though it probably pulled double duty as a burial mound since bones have been found there it has long been theorized it was used as a signal mound. Not only can you see long distances down the river valley a group of volunteers back in the nineties proved you could signal others atop the Hall-Kinder Mound in Franklin which is something like 12 miles away and from there then signal others atop the Miamisburg Mound towards Dayton upriver of that. Early warning system of some invasion and war that we don't know of? I also included along with the photo I snapped a satellite photo image so you can compare the size of the mound to the houses across the road. What hidden history and secrets this place must contain.