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Montgomery County · Prehistoric · 800 BCE – 700 CE

Gaitskill Mound's engraved tablets

On Mount Sterling's northern bypass, Gaitskill Mound is an Adena earthwork (roughly 800 B.C.–A.D. 700) listed on the National Register in 1975.

Unlike many looted mounds, it yielded rare engraved stone and clay tablets recovered through University of Kentucky work associated with W.S. Webb — ritual objects tied to Adena cremation and mound ceremony rather than everyday trash. The site anchors Montgomery County's deep Woodland past beneath the later townscape.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Gaitskill Mound's engraved tablets." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised September 12, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/gaitskill-mounds-engraved-tablets/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Gaitskill Mound's engraved tablets." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 12 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/gaitskill-mounds-engraved-tablets/.

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