ANCIENT MOUND NEAR LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY. 421 



Kentucky, published iu 1847, (page 204:,) aud about a quarter of a mile 

 north of the larger ancient work near the dividing line, between the old 

 military surveys of Dandridge and Meredith, described in the same 

 work, of which I shall append a further description. About a mile and 

 a half nearly north of this little mound, on the Nutter farm, is a larger 

 mound, apparently' about 15 feet high. 



The manner in which these relics were discovered by Mr. Fisher was 

 as follows : His attention having been drawn to the appearance of frag- 

 ments of tlint arrow-heads and other articles, in a hog-wallow near the 

 center of the little mound, he dug a hole there about 3A feet deep and 



4 or 5 across, and discovered a bed of ashes about 2i feet deep and 4 or 



5 feet in diameter, in which the relics I send you were found, together 

 with i^ieces of charcoal, most of which seems to have been made from 

 small stems. The copper articles were nearly all together, and a little 

 to the north of the center of the bed of ashes, while the other articles 

 were scattered throughout the same bed, in which were about a peck of 

 flint arrow-heads, all evidently broken by the action of fire. The coj)- 

 I)er articles were found, according to Mr. Fisher's description, in the 

 following positions: The larger of the adze-shaped edged-tools, or cop- 

 per axes, was lying with the concave side downward; next immedi- 

 ately above it was the longest of the ornamental articles, the one 

 with one ear broken off", and with the rust scraped off from the other. 

 It was lying crosswise, with the ear next to the broader end of the 

 lower piece. Above these was the second ornamental article, the one 

 having a piece of flint arrow-head attached to it; this was lying with 

 the flint upward and the horn downward. It has a fracture in the 

 surface of the rust, on the lower side, corresponding to a piece of the 

 same attached to the top of the charcoal on the adze-shaped article 

 which lay below it ; the ear was resting on the broad end of that article. 

 Close to these, aud with one horn under the pile described, was the 

 largest article, nearly square in shape, with one horn curled and another 

 broken off about three-fourths of an inch from the body. The smaller 

 broken adze-shaped article was lying on this diagonally. The broken 

 horn was found near by. There were three hemispherical articles of 

 iron found, of v»'hich two are sent, and several pieces of sandstone, 

 similar to the coarsest ones sent. 



The singular pieces of stone with holes bored through them seem to 

 have been fractured by fire. Others, somewhat like these in shape, 

 each with two holes, made of the native sulphate of baryta, which 

 occurs in numerous seams in our limestone rock, are frequent!}' found 

 in this neighborhood on the surface of the ground. I send two in the 

 box, and a hemispherical piece of the same material. They may be dis- 

 tinguished by their whiteness from those taken from the mound. 



It is remarkable that all the fragments of bones found in this mound, 

 in Mr. Fisher's digging, are of the lower animals, aud seem mostly to 

 have been worked or carved for useful or ornamental purposes. No 



