Something resembling a circle has appeared on sub-surface imaging of a field off Newark-Granville Road, in Granville. The property belongs to the village of Granville and is home to several known archeological sites.
Denison University anthropology professor John Soderberg said the field shows evidence of being inhabited for around 10,000 years.
Soderberg and his team have found a trench they hope will provide evidence of a long-lost earthen circle built by Indigenous people thousands of years ago.
“What we’re doing here is called ‘ground truthing,’” Soderberg said. “It’s, ‘OK, we’ve got this weird anomaly that shows up. Can we figure out what it is?’”
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June 16, 2026
