Antiquarian Research at the Feurt Site a Major Fort Ancient Community in Scioto County Ohio
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Located north of Portsmouth Ohio in Scioto County the well-known Feurt Site has attracted both researcher and collector interest for at least 125 years. The Feurt community probably first received professional attention in the summer of 1896 when the legendary researcher/ formidable archaeologist, Warren K. Moorehead, with the cursory support of The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society, led a small team of diggers to the site. Moorehead discovered three mostly flattened mounded features all containing burials. Employing his typical fast-paced excavation strategy Moorehead examined only a small portion of the site's most prominent features. His brief commentary on his work is as follows, "The afternoon of July 13 th we went to Mr. Feurt's farm where we opened the smaller mound and dug the large ones the following day. They are located on the second terrace. The small one is two by twenty five feet, the next four by fifty feet, the largest six by sixty feet." Moorehead's cursory field work episode yielded 33 burials most "without notable burial goods."
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