Effigy Mounds: Ohio's Serpent Mound
The most famous of all effigy mounds is the Great Serpent Mound in Adams County, Ohio. It is 1, 330 feet in length along its coils and averaging three feet in height.
Serpent Mound, an embankment or earth resembling a snake nearly a quarter-mile long, is the largest and finest serpent effigy in North America. Who built the mound - one of the few effigies in Ohio - and why they constructed it remains a mystery.
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