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and passes between or at the base of the mounds contained within it.[1]

A road runs through the entire length of the ancient stone work near Bourneville, Ross county, Ohio.[2]

A state road (Lebanon to Chillicothe) crosses over Fort Ancient. At the spot where this road ascends to the fort, the embankments of the latter are found to be increased in height and solidity, showing that this point was most easy of ascent—probably the very spot where the ancient road was made.[3]

A road passes through the entire length of the North Fork works (Ross county, Ohio).[4]

A road passes through the entire length of ancient work, Ross county, Ohio.[5]

Two roads cut ancient work in Fayette county, Kentucky.[6]

  1. Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 243, plate opp. p. 244.
  2. Squier and Davis's Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, plate iv.
  3. Id., plate vii.
  4. Id., plate x.
  5. Id., plate xii., No. 4.
  6. Id., plate xiv., No. 4.