Dover Mound, Mason County

University of Kentucky anthropologists William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow excavated it in the early 1950s and reported fifty-five burials with accompanying artifacts—one of the fuller published Adena mortuary assemblages from northern Kentucky’s Ohio River hills. Their 1959 monograph still anchors what we know of the site and places Dover in the same Adena world as Mount Horeb and other Bluegrass earthworks, centuries before Fort Ancient villages lined the same river.