Tremper Mound Platform Pipe

ID: 604 ~ Source: Wertz Collection (Item #2001-005-470), Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Ohio. Photo by Lacy Davis. ~ Creator: Lacy Davis
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Tremper Mound Platform Pipe

This dark pink pipestone platform pipe was unearthed during the 1915 excavation of Tremper Mound and was gifted to Charles V. Wertz by Dr. William D. Tremper.

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By Nancy Stranahan
Tremper Mound was constructed on the west terrace of the Scioto River, five miles north of its confluence with the Ohio. Built late in the first century BCE, which was quite early in the Hopewell Cultural era, Tremper Mound’s irregularly shaped…