Hodgen's Cemetery Mound | |
 Eastern side of the mound | |
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| Location | In Hodgen's Cemetery,[2] off Walden Avenue[3] |
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| Nearest city | Tiltonsville |
| Coordinates | 40°10′28″N80°41′41″W / 40.17444°N 80.69472°W /40.17444; -80.69472 |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001443[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 25, 1975 |
TheHodgen's Cemetery Mound is aNative American mound in the far eastern part of theU.S. state ofOhio. Located in the village ofTiltonsville along theOhio River shoreline ofJefferson County,[1] the mound is a prehistoricearthwork andarchaeological site, and it has been named ahistoric site.[4]
During the nineteenth century, white residents of the village of Tiltonsville founded acemetery around a small hill on the northern side of their village. A round, cone-shaped knoll with a tree growing from its top, the hill is surrounded by gravestones as old as the 1870s. At some point since that time,erosion of the hillside revealed human bones, including askull with evidence ofartificial cranial deformation. This practice was common among the prehistoricAdena culture; consequently, the bones allowed archaeologists to determine that the hill was aburial mound built by the Adena,[4] who are believed to have inhabited the area at some point between 500 BC and AD 500.[5]
Although the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound has never beenexcavated, it is a significantarchaeological site — disproportionately large numbers of Adena burials with cranial deformation were societal élites who were typically buried with significantgrave goods, and the intact state of the mound means that its original contents are likely to remain in their place.[4] The mound has been disturbed by the digging of modern graves into its southwestern side,[2] but the graves have not deformed the mound's general conical shape significantly.[4]
In 1975, the Hodgen's Cemetery Mound was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places,[1] qualifying because of its archaeological value in the local area.[5] It is one of two Jefferson County archaeological sites on the Register, along with theSpeedway Mound in nearbyRayland.[1]
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