Show serpent mound the serpent mound in ada adams m county ohio is one of the most im important and unusual indian relics in in ohio apparently designed as an effigy mound its whole length measures 1300 feet the body is four to five feet in height and thirty feet across in parts the serpents head rests on a precipitous rocky platform above brush creel cree and its jaws are opened wide in t the he act of swallowing an egg the body curves gracefully and the tapering tail is wrapped in three tight coils its purpose is unknown although some believe that the people who built it must have been serpent wor shippers the mound now is in a state park |