Finally, the large enclosures, which Webb believed contained Adena villages, surely represent the Major's major unfinished business. There was one example, a large earthwork (Rafinesque 1820, Squirer and Davis 1848) which has since become known as the Peter enclosure (Clay 1984,1985, 1987,1988b).
The potential importance of the large earthwork enclosures for Webb is emphasized by the fact that they fell in his Adena trait #1, despite the fact that he never excavated one and knew the single identified sample only from surface collections (Webb 1943c, Webb and Snow 1945:2930). To quote from his Adena trait list:
Coming to this type of site near the end of his Adena fieldwork, it is clear that Webb felt that the enclosures were the large Adena villages which had eluded him in other parts of the state. In effect, he saw these sites as the domestic side of the culture, which even he recognized was missing in the sites which he had excavated. Later workers, with no further information to support the argument, have generally concurred in this opinion. Recent work suggests that Peter was quite unlike Mt. Horeb and probably contained specialized activities (Clay 1987). As Webb would no doubt have established had he excavated at Peter, Peter was hardly a simple domestic site. There are few others like it in the Ohio Valley.1) Large earthworks associated whh other Adena manifestations.
Recent investigations seem to show that long extended Adena occupancy of any locality resulted in several forms of earth construction... A typical group, but by no means one of the largest, is the Mt. Horeb site, Fayette County, Kentucky....Here a large earthwork which encloses a small Adena village, has another Adena village in its general vicinity ...(Webb and Snow l945:29).