742 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 



pottery, or any implement appeared. It was simply a pile of calcined 

 rock, intensely burnt clay, ashes, and coal. Judging from the vast 

 amount of broken arrow-points, spear-points, and celts, in the field near 

 mound 51, a terrific conilict must have raged upon this spot, and it may 

 be that the conquerors heaped up their dead or those of their enemies 

 and cremated them upon the spot where this mound of ashes, coal, and 

 calcined rock now stands. It was not used as a signal mound, for sev- 

 eral reasons: First the builders would not have expended their labor 

 in gathering these cobble-stone and protecting it as they have done for 

 such a purpose. Second, the location is not suitable, for all signal sta- 

 tions or mounds are located on the most prominent points, clear of all 

 obstructions. Nor is it a kitchen mound, there being no fragments of 

 bone, pottery, &c. Therefore this must have been a funeral pyre. 



Number 51 is in Sec. 27, T. 10 N., E. 2 W., in the northwest corner of 

 the northeast quarter section, on the highest terrace formation, about 6 

 rods from west section line and almost due west of number 50. It lies a 

 little northeast of Mr. Jon. Hugh's residence, on whose farm it is located. 

 This mound has been under cultivation for the past half century. Under 

 the turning process of the plow and scraping and dragging of the 

 harrow during all this time, one finds it impossible to form any idea of 

 its original height. At the present time this one is 2 feet 10 inches 

 high. From the field in which this mound is located a great many 

 arrow-points, pestles, axes, bark-i)ealers, scrapers, etc., have been picked 

 up from time to time, of which a great majority were broken. 



Number 52 is in Sec. 27, T. 10 N., K. 2 W., in the northwest part of 

 the southeast quarter section, on the highest terrace formation, due 

 south of number 51, near the woods, on Mr. Jon. Hugh's farm. The 

 height is 4i feet; base diameter, 35 feet; composition, compact clay. 



Number 53 is in Sec. 20, T. 10 N., E. 2 W., in the northwest part of 

 the northwest quarter section, near the head of a stream called Herralls' 

 Branch, on the highest terrace formation, due north of Mrs. Hayworth's 

 residence, on whose farm it is located. The height is 4 feet; base 

 diameter, 25 feet, and composition, compact clay. 



Number 76 is in Sec. 27, T. 10 N., E. 2 W., in the northeast corner of 

 the southwest quarter section, on the highest terrace formation, and on 

 Mr. A. C. Carter's farm. The height is 3 feet; the base diameter, 20 

 feet, and composition, compact clay. 



Number 77 is in Sec. 23, T. 10 N., E. 2 W., in the southwest corner of 

 the southwest quarter section, on the highest terrace formation, on Mr. 

 E. Wortman's farm, at the head of a small stream called Blue Lick, 

 which empties into Bath Creek. The mound is on the east side and 

 almost due south of the old log cabin that still stands on the south side 

 of the farm. The height is 4| feet ; base diameter, 28 feet ; and composi- 

 tion, compact clay. 



Number 78 is in Sec. 28, T. 11 N., E. 2 W., about the center of the 

 southwest quarter section, on the second terrace formation. It stands 



