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===Adena timber circles=== [[File:Mount Horeb Site 1 HRoe 2022 350px.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Artists conception of [[Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex|Mt Horeb Site 1]]]] Postholes from a number of timber circles have been found during excavations of [[Adena culture]] [[causewayed ring ditch]] sites in the [[Bluegrass region]] of [[Kentucky]] and adjacent regions of [[Ohio]] and [[West Virginia]].<ref>{{Cite journal|author1= Purtill, Matthew P. | author2= Norr, Jeremy A. |author3= Frodge, Jonathan B. | title= Open-Air "Adena" Paired-Post Ritual Features in the Middle Ohio Valley |quote=|journal= Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology |volume= 9 |issue= 1|pages=59β82|doi=10.1179/2327427113Y.0000000010|id=|url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/26599891 | year = 2014 | jstor= 26599891 | s2cid= 129300799 |format=|accessdate=|url-access= subscription }}</ref> A notable example was found by archaeologist [[William S. Webb]] during the excavations of the [[Mount Horeb Earthworks Complex|Mount Horeb Site 1]] in [[Fayette County, Kentucky]] in 1939. Webb discovered a circle of "paired-posts" inside of the embankment ring and ditch.<ref>{{Cite journal|first= R. Berle|last= Clay |title= The Essential Features of Adena Ritual and Their Implications |authorlink= | journal= Southeastern Archaeology |year= 1998 |volume= 17|issue= 1|pages= 1998|doi=|jstor= 41890386 |id=|url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/41890386|format=|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| title= Society of Architectural Historians : Mount Horeb Earthwork | url = https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/KY-01-067-0057 | last= Carbone | first= Cristina| publisher= University of Virginia Press | encyclopedia= SAH Archipedia | date = 17 July 2018 }}</ref> The {{convert|48.5|ft|m}} circle was made up of sixty two "paired" post sets and eight single posts.<ref>{{Cite web | last = Sizemore |first= Judy | title= Mt Horeb : Adena People Teacher Companion Guide | url= https://heritage.ky.gov/Documents/Adena%20People%20Teacher%20Companion%20Guide%202008.pdf | publisher= Kentucky Heritage Council | year= 2008 | page=16 }}</ref>
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