MOUNDS IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY, WISCONSIN. 3o9 



out; this skull, like all tlie others, could not be gotten out except iu small 

 pieces. 



"This was the only mound of the three into which we dug, in which 

 a skeleton could be traced, and even in this the bones were somewhat 

 crowded together, the skeleton not lying extended at full length, and 

 also somewhat mixed up with others, though, I think, fewer bones had 

 been buried in this mound than in any of the others. 



"I would mention that the second and third mounds were much 

 smaller than the first. 



" The bones belonged to individuals of ordinary size, the largest to a 

 man perhaps Oi feet tall, but certainly not any taller than that. 



"As to how the bones came to be placed in these mounds we can, of 

 course, only conjecture; but from their want of arrangement, from the 

 lack of ornaments and implements, and from their having been placed 

 on the original surface (for the old turf was visible just under the low- 

 est bone layer in the second mound) we are inclined to believe that the 

 dry bones were gathered together — those in the larger mounds first and 

 in the smaller ones afterward, and placed in loose piles on the ground, 

 and then earth heaped over them until the mounds were formed. Where 

 the earth came from, if it was not scraped uniformly from the surface of 

 the surrounding fields, is more than we can say, for there are no hollows 

 anywhere about the mounds from which such a quantity could have 

 been taken. It also seemed, from the ashes and charred bones near the 

 surface, that the larger mounds had been used as a place for sacrifices 

 or feasts." 



Professor Sabin, Mr. Martin, and I afterward made an investigation 

 into another of these Gleason mounds. This one is situated near the 

 center of the group; is 30 feet in diameter and oh feet high. Like the 

 others, it contained nothing but bones, was built of the same material, 

 and had its full share of ashes and charcoal. But unlike the others, 

 however, the bones had not been placed on the original surface, but in 

 an oval pit 18 inches deep, 8 feet long, and 5 feet wide, its major axis 

 lying in a general northwest and southeast direction. In this case some 

 arrangement was apparent, the bones of the lower extremities being, as 

 a rule, near the center of the pit, and those of the trunk and upper ex- 

 tremities ranged around the sides. 



THE GREEN LAKE MOUNDS. 



On the shores of Green Lake, G miles west of this place, are a large 

 number of mounds, which have not as yet received any thorough inves- 

 tigation. They consist, first, of circular, flat-topped mounds built on a 

 high bank at the northeast end of the lake, mostly in sect ion 27, town- 

 ship of Brooklyn, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. They were evidently 

 built for observation, as they command a view of the whole length of 

 the lake; and careful digging has failed to reveal relics of any kind 

 buried in them. 



