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No. 27, a mound 5 feet from No. 2G, and of the same fom jut some- 

 what smaller. Surface occupied by hazel brush. Unexplored. 



No. 28, a mouud 40 feet from the last, circular, 1 foot iu height, and 

 24 feet in diameter. Surface partially occupied by small hazel brush 

 and the stumps of a few small trees. Unexplored. 



About one-third of a mile to the northwest from this line of mounds 

 an isolated circular mound occurs. It is located on the brow of a some- 

 what higher and much narrower ridge, and about 40 rods from an aban- 

 doned portion of the channel of the Cedar, marked 1 on the map. This 

 mouud, we were informed by Mr. Oapron, the present owner of the land, 

 was originally about 1^ feet in height and 20 feet in diameter, but as 

 it had been industriously plowed over for more than thir!y-five years, 

 its greatest height when examined by the writer was only about 6 inches. 



A thorough exploration of this mound was made and with the following 

 result: One foot below the surface of the mouud, aud 6 inches below 

 the natural surface of the ground around the mound, was found a large 

 quantity of broken pottery, charcoal, two sinkers, one rude arrow point, 

 and a few flint chippiugs. All these relics showed evidence of having 

 been burned after having been placed in the mound. One foot below 

 the pottery, portions of a human skeleton were found. The bones (which 

 appeared not to have been placed in a bundle) were too few and too 

 badly decayed to allow of any definite knowledge as to the original 

 placing of the body. A portion of the pottery found here presents a 

 combination of net or basket markings and of separate cord markings. 

 The regularity of the impressions upon the subglobular bodies indicates 

 almost unbroken contact with the interior surface of the woven vessel. 

 The rims have been ornamented by separately impressing coarse twisted 

 cords. The rims of two of the vessels were ornamented exactly like tbe 

 "Ancient British Vase" figured on page 399 of the Third Annual Re- 

 port of the Bureau of Ethnology, except that the three upper and. the 

 three lower parallel lines are wanting. 



Some of the vessels were smooth ; all of a very moderate thickness, of 

 a yellowish-red color, and made of pounded granite of drift origin, tine 

 gravel, and clay. Portions of six vessels were found, and all, with oue 

 exception, having the rim variously molded and artistically decorated 

 by the impressions of coarse twisted cords. One of the largest vessels, 

 which was less fractured than the rest, and which admitted of a partial 

 reconstruction of its parts, had an aperture diameter of 20^ centimeters, 

 and a diameter of the large and abruptly flaring portion near the base 

 of 31, and a height of IG centimeters. 



The neck of this vessel was sharply constricted. With one or two ex- 

 ceptions, all the other vessels were of tlie same general form but some- 

 what smaller.* 



*In a future paper we desire to give a more detailed description, accompanied by 

 cuts, of tbe pottery found iu these mounds, together with that of tbe pottery (now in 

 tbe writer's possession) showing the impressions of textile fabrics, from ancient 

 mounds iu other parts of Iowa. 



