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Raleigh Mound

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Raleigh measures approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) tall with a diameter of uncertain size, ranging between 80 feet (24 m) and 90 feet (27 m). Its precise size cannot be determined: the mound was built atop a small hill, and thousands of years of erosion have molded the two into a single
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and village site meant that a detailed investigation of the mound would have a chance of providing archaeologists with an unusually detailed understanding of the people who built it.
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The site's original name was "Rowley Mound", given in honor of a Mr. Rowley, the property owner. Both spellings have been used by federal sources; different editions of
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known as an "expanded-center bar". Such a gorget is distinctive of sites affiliated with the mound-building
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at an uncertain time in the past, and the excavators recovered a distinctive
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rowley Mound
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officially determined to spell it "Rowley" in 1963, and the
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lists it as "Raleigh" while noting "Rowley" as a variant.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Raleigh Mound is located in Ohio
Raleigh Mound is located in the United States
Fredericktown
Ohio
40°28′25″N 82°32′35″W / 40.47361°N 82.54306°W / 40.47361; -82.54306
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33KN32
Native American mound
Fredericktown
Ohio
United States
archaeological site
United States Geological Survey
United States Board on Geographic Names
National Park Service
excavated
artifact
gorget
Adena culture
Stackhouse Mound and Works
National Register of Historic Places
earthworks




"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places

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