serpent mound

this another locally managed site owned by the ohio historical society --- national historic landmark, too --- recent radiocarbon dating has placed its construction around a thousand years ago, by the fort ancient people, but some think it is much older --- whatever, it is impressive --- some 1,348' long and around 3' high, it can only be comprehended in its entirety from above, thus the iron viewing tower (maybe 35' high and constructed in 1908!)  --- there's an alligator effigy mound near granville, but it's on private property and inaccessible doncha know (really?) --- it was a pain in the ass to get to serpent mound from chillicothe, but well worth it, and the two-lane road from there to hillsboro and then west to cincinnati ran through what must be the best of bucolic ohio  ---