Mound 25

Some 2,000 years ago the Hopewell people built a series of wooden ceremonial buildings on the site of Mound 25, which was originally three separate mounds first recorded at maximum dimensions of 13 feet high, 18 feet wide, and 500 feet long. Ceremonial leaders buried their dead here, some in log tombs, and with great care and ritual they placed exotic ornaments and objects with many of the deceased. More than 100 burials were interred within and around these buildings, and as was common practice each building was ceremoniously mounded over. In 1891 archeologist Warren Moorehead excavated the mounds and then had them backfilled, creating the single mound visible today.

Ohio · United States