Note 1762 — Chapter VI · (continued 3)

The best known of the ancient fortifications of this region is that called Fort Ancient, about 42 miles from Cincinnati. It was surveyed by Prof. Locke in 1843. Cf. L. M. Hosea in Quart. Journal of Science (Cinn., Oct., 1874); Putnam in the Amer. Architect, xiii. 19; Amer. Antiquarian, April, 1878; Force’s Moundbuilders; Warden’s Recherches; Squier and Davis, with plan reduced in MacLean, p. 21; Short, 51; and on its present condition, Peab. Mus. Rept., xvi. 168. There is an excellent map of the mounds in the Little Miami Valley, in Dr. C. L. Metz’s Prehistoric Monuments of the Little Miami Valley, in the Journal of the Cincinnati Soc. of Nat. Hist., vol. i., Oct., 1878. The explorations of Putnam and Metz are recorded in the Peab. Mus. Repts., xvii., xviii. (Marriott mound), and xx. Cf. Putnam’s lecture in Mag. West. History, Jan., 1888. There are explorations at Madisonville noticed in the Journal of the Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., Apr., 1880. Others in this region are recorded in L. B. Welch and J. M. Richardson’s Prehistoric relics found near Wilmington (Sparks mound), and by F. W. Langdon in the appendix of Short.