One tends to look at these structures as static, something in a field gradually fading away. It is important to see each of these structures as a process in a landscape, a landscape of use over hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

A graded way is a walled pathway built through two levels of river terrace.

To pin down the known earthworks in about a 20-mile (32.2 km) winding stretch of the lower Scioto Valley in Ross and Pike Counties in southern Ohio, starting from just above the Ross County line.