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This appeared to have been made of some fine vegetable fibre. It 

 was what is technically termed 'doubled and twisted,' and was about the 

 size of fine pack-thread. 



(4) A considerable number of ivory or bone needles, or graving- 

 tools, about one-tenth of an inch thick. Their original length is not 

 known. Several fragments were found two and three inches long. 

 Some have flat cutting points, the points of others were round and 

 sharp ; some were straight, others slightly bent. 



(5) A quantity of pearl beads; an article resembling the cover of a 

 small vessel, carved from stone; also some fragments of copper, in thin, 

 narrow slips. 



"There were no relics of any kind found amongst the charcoal. The 

 layer of this material was not far from six feet square. It had been 

 heaped over while burning." 



Mound No. 5. — In this we found nothing of consequence. Yet in 

 1845 ^ was an important mound, on which Squier and Davis report as 

 follows : — 



"In this instance the altar was covered with stones; and instead of 

 the usual sand stratum, there was found a layer of large flat stones, cor- 

 responding to it. The altar A was composed of earth elevated two and 

 a half feet above the original level of the soil, and was five feet long by 

 three feet four inches broad, the sides sloping at an angle- of nearly 30 

 degrees. It was faced on the top and on the sides with slabs of stone, 

 quite regular in form and thickness, and which, although not cut by 

 an instrument, were closely fitted together, as shown in the supple- 

 mentary section of the altar A. The stone is the Waverly sandstone, 

 underlying the coal series, thin strata of which cap the hills bordering 

 these valleys. The altar bore the marks of fire; and a few fragments of 

 the mound-builders' ornaments, a few pearl beads, etc., were found on 

 and around it. The original deposit had probably been removed by 

 the modern Indians, who had opened the mound and buried one of their 

 dead on the slope of the altar. The stones composing the layer corre- 

 sponding to the sand stratum were two or three feet deep, presenting the 

 appearance of a wall which had fallen inwards." 



Excavation of Mound No. 8. — Three fragmentary skeletons were 

 found in this mound. The field-notes mention that more than half the 

 bones were missing. With skeleton No. 241 there were large sheets of 

 mica. A short distance away was found a nodule of Tennessee flint 

 which weighed between 20 and 30 pounds. The disks found in Mound 



