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as soft as ashes. Six feet southeast of center a fiint knife lay near 

 fragments of a skull; and at the place where the chest bones would 

 have been were fragments of a pot that seemed to have been etitiie 

 when deposited. Less than a foot from the apex were fragmentary 

 human bones. 



"A knife and a l)oat-shaped slate ornament with a crease around 

 the middle were loose in the dirt. Nothing further was found in the 

 upper i)ortiou. A well wrought flint spear, 8i inches long, and a 

 hematite hemisphere were found on the top of this mound some years 

 ago — perhaps plowed out. All the loose earth, was now scraped 

 away and concentric circles, five feet apart, laid off on the level sur- 

 face of the top. In the outer ring, on the northern and western sides, 

 within a foot or less of the top were traces of six skeletons, intrusive 

 burials ; nothing was found with any of them. 



"A little west of south from center, with its inner nuirgin 17 feet 

 from that point, was an elliptical grave, dug before the mound was 

 begun. It measured a little more than nine feet long anil a 

 little more than five feet wide, with the longer axis very nearly 

 east and west. At about 18 inches below the original surface, 

 along the center line of the grave, a body had been placed. 

 Only fragments of the teeth and skull remained, except that a 

 few small pieces of the pelvis and finger bones were preserved 

 by the action of five small rectangular coppei- plates- that had 

 evidently been fastened around the wrist. These plates were in a 

 little mass of very loose, dark earth, probably remains of some sort 

 of fur or fabric, stained in a few places with red ochre. Nothing 

 else was found in the grave until at the bottom, more than a foot 

 below the upper level of the gray sand, which here lies foui- feet 

 under the proper surface. At this level lay a few decayed pieces of 

 bones of a medium sized person extended on the back, head east, 

 exactly under the upper skeleton. The body had been covered with 

 baik or wood which extended to the margin of the grave on every 

 side and gave a reddish- brown tinge to the lower two inches of filled- 

 in earth. This earth was from a swamp or low bottom, being black 

 and sticky and evidently packed in wet, causing the entire de(;ay of 

 the skeleton which would otherwise have been well preserved l)y the 

 dry sand in which it lay. The grave wall was cut down straight for 



- See note. ('. B. M. 



