The Biggs Site (15Gp8), also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South Shore in Greenup County, Kentucky. Biggs was originally a concentric circular embankment and ditch surrounding a central conical burial mound with a causeway crossing the ring and ditch. It was part of a larger complex, the Portsmouth Earthworks, located across the Ohio River and now mostly obliterated by agriculture and the developing city of Portsmouth, Ohio. (author confused Biggs as being Group C, when it is in actuality Group D)
Description The site was surveyed and mapped by E. G. Squier in 1847 for inclusion in the seminal archaeological and anthrolopological work Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. They described the earthwork as being a causewayed embankment high by wide encircling a ditch deep and across. They encircled an area in diameter. In the center of the ditch was a conical tumulus high and in diameter.
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See also Hardin Village Site Lower Shawneetown Thompson Site
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Black and white photo of site, Jan 23, 1939, The William S. Webb Museum WPA/TVA Photograph Archive Working with the EM38 Earth Conductivity Meter: Geophysical Survey at the Hopeton Earthwork, Chillicothe, Ohio, May, 2001 Scioto Historical : Portsmouth Earthworks Tour