Raven Rock Stone Cairn Cache of Leaf-Shaped Blades

ID: 585 ~ Source: Wertz Collection (Items #2001-005-760, #2001-005-540, #2001-005-547, and #2001-005-1288 through 1302), Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Ohio. Photo by Lacy Davis.
 ~ Creator: Lacy Davis
This file appears in: Raven Rock Nature Preserve
Raven Rock Stone Cairn Cache of Leaf-Shaped Blades
This file appears in: Raven Rock Nature Preserve

By Andrew Feight, Ph.D.
From its height and location on a bend in the Ohio River, Raven Rock offers views of modern-day Portsmouth at the Confluence of the Scioto and Ohio Rivers. In frontier times, Shawnee and Cherokee warriors could look up and down the Ohio River for…