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Copper whistle recovered from Rockhold Mound Save

Description: Photograph showing a copper whistle recovered during excavation of a burial in the Rockhold Mound Group. The Rockhold Mound Group is located in Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio, a little more than a mile west of Bainbridge. The group originally consisted of 4 widely-spaced mounds arranged in a somewhat arcing cluster. The mound group occupied both the upper and lower terraces along the south bank of Paint Creek just east of Massie’s Run. The mounds were described as rather low in profile, about two feet high. Although none of the diameters of any of the mounds were apparently ever recorded, it can be estimated that 80 feet or less would be the nominal diameter for such low-profile structures. In 1929 Emerson Greenman of the Ohio History Connection investigated two mounds of the group he named Rockhold Mounds 1 and 2 in reference to the land owner, Perry Rockhold. Greenman found that both mounds contained burials accompanied by artifacts made from copper, mica and galena, considered diagnostic of the Hopewell Culture (100 BC - AD 400), indicating that the Hopewell constructed these mounds and likely the entire mound group. A third mound was investigated by a private individual in the 1940s and produced similar results. A field survey of the site was conducted in 1973 and it was noted that at that time the fourth mound measured approximately 12 inches high by 106 feet north-south and 87 feet east-west, and was covered with coarse brush. It was further noted that overall the mound appeared flattened and spread out from plowing with approximately two-thirds of what might have been its original structure still intact. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B04F02_E12_006
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1–400); Mounds -- Ohio -- Ross County; Earthworks (Archaeology); Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio; Artifacts
Places: Ross County (Ohio)

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