Biggs site

The Biggs Site, also known as the Portsmouth Earthworks Group D, is an Adena culture archaeological site located near South [Shore, Kentucky|South Shore] in Greenup [County, Kentucky]. Biggs was originally a concentric Causewayed [ring ditch|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.

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.