ANCIENT MOUNDS IN UNION COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 



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liole tbroiigli tlie center, the margin grooved like a pulley, (we called 

 these pulley stones,) with about five small i)erforations from the center 

 of the margin of the j)ulley, in the direction of radii, to the opening in 

 the center ; an article five inches long made of copper nearly in the 

 form of an awl, the large end or handle very much oxidized, (r)robably 

 had a wooden handle;) a flat stone with holes; an earthen pot broken, 

 contents about one gallon ; a thin piece of copper one-sixteenth of an 

 inch thick, irregularly round, covered with some woven fabric not un- 

 like fine linen. The diameter of the disk of copper was about three 

 inches." 



In box No. 2 is a copper disk, which was found in a low mound with two 

 other pieces similar in form and size, by Mr. McKenny, who states that 

 the three disks appeared to be the ends and middle of a '' spool," which 

 when found had on it what appeared to be the remains of a fine twine 



or coarse thread. The mound from which this copper article was taken 

 was a low one, 10 feet iu diameter. Being in a field, it was soon plowed 



