Gateway Mounds

Ohio History

The Great Gateway

As we drove away from the museum inside Fort Ancient, we passed through these two mounds. If I am not mistaken, this is the Great Gateway. Two exceptionally large mounds join the northern and southern parts of Fort Ancient. They create a gateway that is the primary entrance to the southern area of the enclosure. According to the sign, there is also a small mound that was built just south of the Gateway mounds. It connects to a stone pavement that runs 150 feet into the southern enclosure. I don't believe we saw it, although apparently it is still in tact, since we did not get out of the car. But if you look closely at the left-hand mound in the picture, you can almost see a smaller mound down in front. It was pretty cool to drive through the opening between these two mounds!

More Mounds

Here is another road between two mounds that we saw as we drove out of Fort Ancient. I don't remember if we were still inside the enclosure or not, but it was surprising how many mounds we could spot even from inside our car.