The Great Serpent Mound

The Great Serpent Mound is located on the east fork of Ohio Brush Creek, in Bratton Township, in the extreme northern portion of Adams County, within sight of the little hamlet of Loudon (Lovett P.O.) and about seven miles from the town of Peebles on the line of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Virginia Railroad. It lies along the crest of a narrow spur-like ridge rising in its highest part to an altitude of one …

…width is no more than four or five feet. Here the height is from three to four feet which increases toward the center of the body to a height of from five to six feet. The total length of the entire work from the north end of the oval to the end of the tail of the serpent following its convolutions, is fourteen hundred and fifteen feet, and the average height is about four feet.