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{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States}}
{{For|the unincorporated community in Butler and Edmonson Counties, Kentucky|Roundhill, Kentucky}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name                 = Archeological Site 15 Ma 24
| nrhp_type            =
| image                = RoundHillKentuckyMound.jpg
| caption              = Adena Mound at Round Hill, Kentucky
| nearest_city         = Round Hill, Kentucky
| locmapin             = Kentucky#USA
| architect OR builder =
| architecture         =
| added                = August 18, 1980
| area                 = {{convert|0.2|acre}}
| refnum               = 80001651<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}

'''Round Hill''' is an [[unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Madison County, Kentucky|Madison County]], [[Kentucky]], [[United States]].<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|502399}}</ref>  It lies 10 miles southwest of [[Richmond, Kentucky|Richmond]] on [[Kentucky Route 595]]. Round Hill is part of the Richmond–[[Berea, Kentucky|Berea]] [[Richmond-Berea micropolitan area|Micropolitan Statistical Area]].

A [[Mound builder (people)|burial mound]] attributed by the [[National Register of Historic Places]] to the [[Adena culture]] is the central feature of the village.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ky/Madison/state.html|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-07-28|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> The ovoid earthwork has a base of roughly 150 by 90 feet and a height of 25 feet. Unsystematic excavations in the early twentieth century by local residents produced flint tools and human remains.<ref>{{cite book  | last = Webb  | first = W. S.  |author2=W. D. Funkhouser   | title = Archaeological Survey of Kentucky  | series = Reports in Archaeology and Anthropology, vol. 2   | publisher = University of Kentucky, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology  | year = 1932  | location = Lexington  | pages = 263}}</ref> The mound stands on private property but is visible from the road.

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{{Adena culture}}
{{Pre-Columbian North America}}
{{Madison County, Kentucky}}
{{National Register of Historic Places}}
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[[Category:Adena culture]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Kentucky]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Richmond–Berea micropolitan area]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Madison County, Kentucky]]
[[Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Mounds in Kentucky]]


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