Opatrny Village Site

The Opatrny Village Site is an ancient village site dating from AD 1000–1600. The site was inhabited by the Monongahela culture and is a contemporary with the Fort Ancient cultural way of life. The property was placed on the National Register on 1975-05-21.

Opatrny Village Site
Overview of the site
LocationU.S. Route 40 north of the Belmont Hills Country Club[1]
Nearest citySt. Clairsville, Ohio
Coordinates40°4′29″N 80°56′36″W
Area50 acres (20 ha)
NRHP reference No.75001323[2]
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1975

The extent of the site has not been fully determined as the artifacts lie in occupational debris over 1.5 feet thick. The site has been used as a pasture and remains largely intact. The property was placed to protect the integrity of the site from a highway project.

Around 1980, an extensive excavation was carried out at Opatrny; the information that it yielded was seen as highly significant in understanding the ways that local cultures changed and developed their surrounding terrain.[3]:367–368 Despite its location along U.S. Route 40, the village remains less disturbed by modern development than most surrounding terrain.[1]

References
  1. Gray and Pape. National Road/U.S. 40 Historic Properties Inventory in Ohio Archived 2014-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1. Columbus: Ohio Department of Transportation, 1998-07-02, 65.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  3. Myers, Thomas P., ed. "Current Research. American Antiquity 45 (1980): 355-376.

Further reading
  • Ohio Historical Society, Division of Archeology; The Opatrny Village Site; Ohio Historical Society; Columbus, Ohio 1974
  • "Radiocarbon Information from Eastern Ohio and a Summary of the Late Prehistoric Occupation at the Opatrny Village Site". Ohio Archaeologist 29.2 (1979): 40–41.


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