402 ANCIENT MOUNDS IN UNION COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 



rock. Tlie pieces composing tlie pavement varied in size from 20 to 150 

 pounds weight. Many of the bodies found at the base of the clay ap- 

 peared to have been covered by sUxbs of the stone forming the pavement 

 set lip shinting toward the body with the ends of opposite stones rest- 

 ing against each other, thus roofing the body in. 



The bodies beneath the chiy did not appear to have been buried in the 

 order generally observed in the mounds heretofore examined. Beneath 

 the clay bed, to the depth of G feet, the bodies were evidently buried by 

 covering, after having been laid upon a cleaned surface, with the sandy 

 earth obtained from some of the banks, marked «, J), c. (Diagram iSTo. G.) 



A large excavation was made below the clay and pavement and many 

 bodies removed ; the bones were quite tender. No works of art were 

 found. The hole was filled up and the work carried across the mound 

 to the depth of the mouldy clay. 



I was particularly interested in the fact that in this mound there was 

 an absence of all works of art in the deep burials, and less regularity 

 and system in the manner of arranging the bodies than that observed 

 in the later burials or the urn-burying tribes. As in the Lindsay mound 

 the deeper-placed bodies did not invariably lie on the left side, and the 

 head was sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other, sometimes 

 thrown forward or backward. The mouth was frequently open, retain- 

 ing a horrible expression. No fragment of pottery or flint was found 

 under the clay layer in mound 37. Two or three of the skulls of the 

 deep burials will be found in barrel No. 5 shipped from Uniontown, 

 Kentucky. 



The burials above the clay layer of this mound conform generally to 

 the plan of those of the Lindsay mound : heads inward, lying on the 

 left side, &c. There do not appear to have been so many pots buried 

 as there were bodies. The use of the burial urns seems to have been 

 more frequent at the burials in the Lindsay and McCoughtery mounds 

 than in this one. Some of the last bodies placed in this mound with an 

 urn were very slightly covered. Two bodies which were found with 

 urns were covered from the head to the hips with rough stone similar 

 in arrangement to those bodies alluded to which were found under the 

 clay layer of this mound. A few vases were found entire, but the greater 

 number were broken. Some appeared to have been broken before they 

 were placed with the dead body about to be covered. 



With some of the bodies, about 3 feet below the surface, there 

 occurred a parcel of small, long, round bones. In one of these par- 

 cels was a needle made of bone and an ornament ma<le of the shell 

 of an unio, also a pair of unio shell drops. The hurry and discomfort 

 of the work forbid a very careful examination of the articles, or an 

 attempt (o sketch any of them. A single double-pointed flint was the 

 only article of stone found in the mound, and this not in any apparent 

 connection with a body. It appeared to have been dropped upon 



