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not be preserved. Section 3 was reduced to within 5 feet of the base 

 line with scrapers. Various patches and masses of colored earth were 

 observed, as in previous excavations. There were many layers and 

 deposits of gravel, some long, some short, and all more or less curved. 

 Near the centre of the section, 4 feet from the base line, were found one 

 hundred and twenty pieces of sheet copper. They were all laid flat, 

 and occupied a space 3 feet long by 2 feet wide, with layers of bark 

 above and below. There were no skeletal remains connected with this 

 deposit, nor was any altar found near it. The bark was exceedingly 



Fig. 12a. 

 Head-dress of Copper from Skeletons 260 and 261. 



fragile and crumbled, notwithstanding our efforts to preserve fragments. 

 Many of the plates were worked into various patterns. Very few of 

 them were of forms known to exist in Ohio, the greater part of the 

 designs being unique. The field list is as follows: A long mass of copper 

 covered with wood on one side, squares and five other traceable things 

 on the reverse; eighteen single copper rings, two of which are small; 

 double copper rings; one set of three and one set of two; five saucer- 

 shaped disks; saw-shaped design, arrowhead, and other unknown things 

 massed together; one combination design of circles and bars; smaller 

 mass of copper, wheels, etc.; two fragmentary fish, and one whole fish 

 resembling the red-horse ; two diamond-shaped stencils of copper ; three 

 long copper plates, one of them perforated; two swastika crosses; four 



