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Traces or fragments of human remains were found in six places. 

 At one foot above the bottom, four feet south, and two feet west of 

 the center, was a skull, the bones belonging with it extending south- 

 ward. At the same level, five feet south, eight feet west of center 

 was a skull stained with hematite; there were also traces of bone six 

 inches above the last. At three and one-half feet above the bottom, 

 ten feet east of the center, was a skull which seemed to have been 

 placed with the face uppermost; three feet west of it, and six inches 

 higher, with no trace of other bones in the intervening space, was a 

 pelvis with leg bones extending southward from it but not parallel ; 

 immediately beneath, was a dark line extending entirely across the 

 mound, showing that the work had been stopped for a time at this 

 height ; the body or skeleton had been laid on what was then the top 

 of the mound, covered with bark on which was thrown a foot of 

 earth running to a feather-edge a foot west of center. After this, 

 another interval in the labor followed, as shown by a similar line. 

 A body had then been laid on the summit, with the head six and 

 one-half feet east of the center, the feet toward the west. On the 

 skull were several pieces of mica, some of them trimmed to a cres- 

 centic outline, and a small, very smooth, sandstone ornament re- 

 sembling a fiddle bridge in shape. The last skull discovered was 

 six feet above the bottom, eight feet south of the center ; it, also, had 

 mica lying on it, some cut like that above mentioned. All the bones 

 found were so soft as to fall to pieces on exposure ; and most of them 

 were so decayed that they could be traced only as a streak or thin 

 layer by their color. 



W hen the bottom was reached, the result was disappointing ; there 

 was no trace of a grave or other form of burial in or on the soil. A 

 line of soft earth which appeared to form the edge of an excavation, 

 proved to be only a narrow trench 8 to 12 inches wide at the top, 

 somewhat narrower at the bottom, and not more than a foot deep, 

 surrounding an irregular quadrilateral space about twenty feet 

 across. A considerable part of the undisturbed surface now exposed 

 was covered with a layer of ashes and charcoal, containing many 

 small fragments of burned animal bone, but no pottery fragments or 

 other art products. It varied from a thin streak to a layer of 3 or 

 4 inches; where it was heaviest the earth beneath was considerably 

 burned. Many post-holes were found, some five or six inches in 

 diameter and about two feet deep, others a foot in either dimension ; 



