Etna Township Mounds

The Etna Township Mounds are a pair of Native American mounds in Etna Township, Licking County, Ohio, United States.[1] Located east of Reynoldsburg near Interstate 70,[2] the mounds are built primarily of sand. Unlike typical Native American mounds, their location reveals nothing of their builders:[3]^:864 they are not built atop hills or along a stream,[3]^:865 as Adena mounds typically are.[3]^:776

Because the mounds have never been archaeologically excavated, virtually nothing is certain about them other than that they were constructed by one of the mound-building cultures that inhabited Ohio during the Woodland period.[3]^:864

It has been proposed that the mounds are the work of a group of individuals isolated from the rest of their culture. Because excavation of the mounds is likely to yield valuable information about such isolated groups, the mounds are a potential archaeological site.[3]^:865 In recognition of their archaeological value, the Etna Township Mounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]