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Fayette County · Prehistoric · 300 BCE – 200 BCE

Peter Village Enclosure (15Fa166): Early Woodland in Fayette County

In Fayette County, Peter Village is a huge, non-geometric ditch-and-embankment earthwork Rafinesque paced as a roughly twenty-sided polygon nearly 3,800 feet around.

Early use (~300–200 BCE) looks pre-Adena: a stockade, then ditch and bank, tied to harvesting and working local galena and barite rather than a simple village.

Later Adena people reused the enclosure briefly; recent LiDAR and radiocarbon work suggest it may be among the Middle Ohio Valley’s earliest ditch-and-embankment monuments, with a southern entrance and a second outer embankment still reading in the ground.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Peter Village Enclosure (15Fa166): Early Woodland in Fayette County." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 12, 2026. Last revised October 24, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/peter-village-enclosure-15fa166/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Peter Village Enclosure (15Fa166): Early Woodland in Fayette County." Kentucky History Drive, published 12 Sept. 2026, last revised 24 Oct. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/peter-village-enclosure-15fa166/.

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