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Mounds and Burial Grounds of Bartholomew Cuuntv. Indiana. 

 J. J. Edwards, M. D. 



It has repeatedly been stated that there are no artificial earthworks 

 or mounds within the eonnt.v which may be ascribed to a prehistoric race. 

 After investigation and numerous incjuiries we sum up the data thus ob- 

 tained and offer it for what it is worth to the student of archaeology: 



1. A circular mound sixty feet in diameter and about three feet high, 



but by cultivation now almost level with the surface of the field, 

 is situated on the farm of Henry Blessing, in Wayne township^ 

 section 1, township 8, north, range 5 east. Some years ago it was 

 explored ;ind five skeletons were found, besides numerous stone 

 implements. Many articles of stone, together with fragments of 

 bones, have since Ih'ch obt.-nncd. A Mi;in named Sam. ('I;irk found 

 an entire skull, which he used as a •"di'lnking gom-d." 'IMiis momid 

 is one and a half miles northeast of Wailesbiiro. 



2. There is a small circul;ir iiidund on the Lloyd Mo\dridge farm, twa 



mil(>s west of Cox's Crossing, in Columbus township, in section 34, 

 townshij) 9, north, range .") east. Mr. Oscar liowe informs me that 

 seveivil skeletons and relics h.avc I»cch unearthed here. It has not 

 been systematically explored. 



3. There is a small circular mound just north of the .lackson and Bar- 



tholomew county line and soutli of the farm of Eli .Mar(iuette. It 

 is situated in a stri]) of woodlaml east of the highway which runs 

 southeast from .Tonesville. and is in section 10. township 7. north, 

 range (!, east. 1 do not knoAV if it has lieen exi>l(>i'ed. 



4. While opening the Wailesboro railroad gravel \nt a large skeleton was 



exhumed. Beside him were buried several relics of stone, amoug^ 

 which was a I)eautiful gorget of polished striped slate, now in my 

 jHissession. It i.s different from, but more nearly resembles, the 

 gorget figured as 130, page US. of the thirteenth annual report of 

 the Bureau of p:thnology (Washington. I). C.. L^^itl-'.H.'. jiuldished 

 lS!)t;.) than any I have seen figured. 



5. In liMH, on opening a gravel pit just north of Wailesltoi-o. in section l-I, 



in the angle formed by the pike and railroad and nortli of the 

 crossing, a human skeleton was unearthed, Init no relics were 

 obtained. This was about one hundred yards north of the place 

 where the large skeleton .al)o\(' referred to was exhumed. 



