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have been so completely obliterated by the plow that I cannot be cer- 

 tain about them. I have visited and measured all of these. The largest is 

 situated farthest east, near the line and very near the N. E. corner of the 

 quarter quarter. It is 650 feet in circumference and is an ellipse, longest 

 east and west. Its east and west diameter is 215 feet. The north and south 

 is about 150 feet. Within this enclosure is a large mound, longest east and 

 west and having much the appearance of two mounds joined to each other, 

 the western mound being the highest. The length of the mound, east and 

 west, is 140 feet and it is about 100 feet wide, north and south. The height 

 of the mounds above the general original surface is about ten feet; above 

 the bottom of the ditches about fifteen feet. The ditch varies in depth but 

 is probably six feet in deepest place, and shallows off into three feet at 

 places. It is mostly in the original forest, but has its south embankment 

 in a cultivated field. On each side of the eastern part of the mound there 

 are slight elevations, whether natural or artificial I cannot tell. They give 

 the mound an appearance of an attempt to imitate a cross. I have a map 

 of this whole group, and an elevation showing shape of the large mound. 

 This mound has been dug into in four or five places at different 

 times. 



In the fall of 1890 myself and several others made an exploration of parts 

 of this mound. We dug a trench six to eight feet deep from the east side 

 to the center, and one from north to south through the western end of the 

 mound. We found two places in the last, one within eight or tf'U feet of 

 each end, where the clay had been burned hard, and yet there were no 

 ashes. Batwen these two places about thirty feet apart we found deposits 

 of ashes but no burnt clay, indicating that the ashes had been removed 

 from the places of fire and thrown in heaps at a distance of a few feet. 

 These places of burnt earth were about two by three feet in size and burned 

 to the depth of ten or more inches. One of them had the appearance of 

 having been raised above the surrounding earth seven or more inches. It 

 was longest east and west and had somewhat the appearance of the figure 

 8. Near the center of the mound in the trench dug from the eastern side 

 we found, at a depth of nearly nine feet, a large bed of ashes some six 

 by seven feet in diameter. The bed was slightly hollowed out and the 

 ashes at deepest place, near the center, were not less than four to five 

 inches in depth. Among these ashes we found much charcoal and 

 many fragments of bones, some of which I have with me. I am not 

 able to say from what animal they are. A little to the northwest of 



