Oak Mounds

Oak Mounds: The Oak Mounds is a large prehistoric earthwork mound, and a smaller mound to the west. They are located outside Clarksburg, in Harrison County, West Virginia.

Contents

1 Mounds

2 Site

3 See also

4 References

Mounds

These mounds have never been totally excavated but they were probably built between 1 and 1000 CE by the Hopewell culture mound builders, prehistoric indigenous peoples of eastern North America. The larger mound is about 12 feet high and 60 feet in diameter. A number of burials of important persons of the culture probably occurred in these mounds. ^[1]

Site

An incorrectly worded historical marker sign is located on County Rt. 98 near the Veterans Administration Hospital. The sign errounously states the direction the mounds are in relative to the sign itself, however the mounds are actually to the west, on the far side of the West Fork River, and not "Directly to the east..." The sign's entire inscription reads: "Oak Mounds - Directly to the east are two earthen, domed burial mounds. The larger mound is some sixty feet in diameter and twelve feet high. Excavations in 1969 revealed flint tools, pottery shards and skeletal remains of two individuals. Site dates to about 100 BC, late Woodland Period."^[2]

See also

Mound

Mound builder (people)

Effigy mound

Earthwork (archaeology)

Tumulus - burial mound

List of Hopewell sites

References

^ WV EXP

^ WV Historical sign list

Coordinates: 39°15′48″N 80°21′56″W / 39.26334°N 80.36556°W / 39.26334; -80.36556

v · d · e    Hopewellian peoples

Woodland period · List of Hopewell sites · Mound builder (people) · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell
Beam Farm · Benham Mound · Cary Village Site · Cedar-Bank Works · Dunns Pond Mound · Ellis Mounds · Ety Enclosure · Ety Habitation Site · Fort Ancient · Fortified Hill Works · Great Hopewell Road · High Banks Works · Hopeton Earthworks · Hopewell Culture National Historical Park · Indian Mound Cemetery · Keiter Mound · Marietta Earthworks · Moorehead Circle · Mound of Pipes · Nettle Lake Mound Group · Newark Earthworks · Oak Mounds · Perin Village Site · Portsmouth Earthworks · Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District · Shawnee Lookout · Tremper Mound and Works · Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture
Mann Site · O'byams Fort site · Rockwell Mound

Goodall Focus
Goodall Site · Norton Mound Group

Havana Hopewell culture
Albany Mounds State Historic Site · Dickson Mounds · Mound House site · Naples Mound 8 · Rockwell Mound · Sinnissippi Mounds · Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell
Cloverdale archaeological site · Renner Village Archeological Site · Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture
Crooks Mound · Grand Gulf Mound · Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site · Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture
Bynum Mound and Village Site · Ingomar Mound · Miller Site · Pharr Mounds · Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula Complex
Lewiston Mound · Serpent Mounds Park · LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture
Etowah Indian Mounds · Leake Mounds · Kolomoki Mounds Historic Park · Miner's Creek site, · Nacoochee Mound · Swift Creek mound site · Yearwood site

Other Hopewellian peoples
Armstrong culture · Copena culture · Fourche Maline culture · Laurel Complex · Saugeen Complex · Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items
Copper · Galena · Mica · Fresh water pearls · Obsidian · Pipestone · Sea shells

Related topics · Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley · Black drink · burial mound · Calumet (pipe) · Effigy mound · Hopewell pottery · Horned Serpent · Eastern Agricultural Complex · Underwater panther

v · d · e    Late Woodland cultures

Mound builder (people) · List of archaeological periods (North America)

Sites
Baytown Site · Beattie Park Mound Group · Book Site · Bowen Site (12 MA 61) · Brinsfield I Site · Brokaw Site · Clampitt Site (12-LR-329) · Fisher Site · Hoye Site · Little Maquoketa River Mounds State Preserve · Memorial Park Site · Mott Mounds · Nottingham Site · Ormond Mound · Sommerheim Park · Troyville Earthworks · University of Tennessee Agriculture Farm Mound ·

Cultures
Alachua culture · Baytown culture · Clemson Island culture · Coles Creek culture · Manahoac · Monongahela culture · Oliver Phase · Plum Bayou culture · Springwells Phase · Troyville culture · Weeden Island culture ·

Related topics · Steuben point · Belle Glade culture · Extreme weather events of 535–536 · Fort Ancient culture · Mississippian culture · Oneota · St. Johns culture ·

v · d · e    Pre-Columbian North America

Archaeological cultures

North American pre-Columbian chronology – Adena – Alachua – Ancient Pueblo (Anasazi) – Baytown – Belle Glade – Buttermilk Creek Complex – Caborn-Welborn – Calf Creek – Caloosahatchee – Clovis – Coles Creek – Deptford – Folsom – Fort Ancient – Fort Walton – Fremont – Glades – Glacial Kame – Hopewell (List of Hopewell sites) – Hohokam – Leon-Jefferson – Mississippian (List of Mississippian sites) – Mogollon – Monongahela – Old Cordilleran – Oneota – Paleo-Arctic – Paleo-Indians – Patayan – Plano – Plaquemine – Poverty Point – Prehistoric Southwest – Red Ocher – Santa Rosa-Swift Creek – St. Johns – Steed-Kisker – Tchefuncte – Tocobaga – Troyville

Archaeological sites

Angel Mounds – Bandelier National Monument – The Bluff Point Stoneworks – Cahokia – Chaco Canyon – Casa Grande – Coso Rock Art District – Eaker – Effigy Mounds National Monument – Etowah Indian Mounds – Eva – Folsom Site – Fort Ancient – Fort Center – Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument – Holly Bluff Site – Hopewell Culture National Historical Park – Kincaid Mounds – Kolomoki – Manitou Cliff Dwellings – Marksville – Meadowcroft Rockshelter – Mesa Verde – Moorehead Circle – Moundville – Mummy Cave – Nodena Site – Ocmulgee National Monument – Old Stone Fort – Parkin Park – Pinson Mounds – Portsmouth Earthworks – Poverty Point – Pueblo Bonito – Rock Eagle – Rock Hawk – Salmon Ruins – Serpent Mound – Spiro Mounds – SunWatch – Taos Pueblo – Toltec Mounds – Town Creek Indian Mound – Winterville

Miscellaneous

Ballgame – Black drink – Buhl woman – Calumet – Chunkey – Clovis point – Container Revolution – Eastern Agricultural Complex – Eden point – Effigy mound – Falcon dancer – Folsom point – Green Corn Ceremony – Horned Serpent – Kennewick man – Kiva – Metallurgy – Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing – Medicine wheel – Mound builders – N.A.G.P.R.A. – Norse colonization of the Americas – Piasa – Pueblo dwellings – Southeastern Ceremonial Complex – Three Sisters agriculture – Thunderbird – Underwater panther

Related: Genetic history · Indigenous Portal of North America · Pre-Columbian era

Categories:
Hopewellian peoples
Woodland period of North America
Native American history of West Virginia
Archaeological sites in West Virginia
Mounds of West Virginia
Native American archeology
Geography of Harrison County, West Virginia

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