Mound Park Copper Spearhead

ID: 613 ~ Source: Wertz Collection (Item #2001-005-723), Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, Ohio. Photo by Lacy Davis. ~ Creator: Lacy Davis

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A socketed sheet copper spearhead, with provenance in Portsmouth's Mound Park. This spearhead's exotic material (copper) and its provenance in a major Hopewell ceremonial site - the central grouping of Portsmouth's Earthworks Complex (Group B) - suggests a Hopewell Culture ceremonial use.

This file appears in: Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks

Mound Park and the Preservation of the Portsmouth Earthworks

By Andrew Sewell

Portsmouth's Mound Park lays claim to the lone remnant of the central complex of the Portsmouth Earthworks that once spread across the Ohio River over the modern communities of Portsmouth, Ohio and South Portsmouth and South Shore, Kentucky. The…