ANCIENT MOUNDS IN UNION COUNTY, KENTUCKY. 403 



tbe top of tbe mound, and was found not deeper than six inches below 

 the surface. In working southwardly, toward tbe white-oak, in mound 

 37, the end of a discolored line of earth, 3 feet wide, was encountered. 

 This was carefully followed 5 feet deep to a skeleton, tbe bead lying 

 toward tbe north, feet south. This was evidently au interment made 

 in an excavated pit. Extreme caution was used in removing this body. 

 Tbe bead was found entire. JSTear tbe bead, in the position of the ears, 

 were found tbe two copper bells packed in box Xo. 3. 



In making the original excavation for tbe reception of this body, at 

 least tliree bodies, or parts of bodies, bad been removed, and this body 

 placed as deep as the third or fourth tier of layers, the bead resting on 

 the layer of moldy clay, so frequently referred to. There were three 

 or four other burials made by excavating in this mound, but as nothing 

 worthy of note was found with them they require no special description. 

 The bones removed by digging the graves referred to aj)pear to have 

 been (carelessly thrown into the grave over the newly buried body, but 

 never in immediate contact with it. 



A considerable excavation was made into the elongated neck of this 

 mound. Urn burials extended down about 5 feet, regularly disposed. 

 The digging was carried 9 feet in depth, and great irregularity was ob- 

 served. At tbe depth of 5^- feet the body of a youth was found. Tbe 

 skull and long bones were sent in barrel 6. This body may be known 

 by tbe base of a deer's horn packed v»'itb the skull. The whole horn 

 was buried just above the face, tbe head slightly elevated, directed 

 outward, and toward the falling land or slope. Parcels of bones dis- 

 connected were found buried in this part of tbe mound, in excavations 

 which cut through former burials ; beads disconnected from bodies, loose 

 bones, &c. With one of tbe regular covered burials, about 3 feet deep, 

 were found some ornaments made of panther's (?) teeth. Two or three 

 feet distant from this body was found a parcel, in discolored earth, con- 

 taining parts of a jaw with feline teeth and some pieces of vertebra of an 

 unknown animal. Tbe number of relics obtained was very small, wdien 

 the amount of work done in the examination is considered. A considera- 

 ble number of long bones were preserved and packed in barrel No. 5, 

 also one entire vertebral column. The material among these bodies is 

 the same as that in the Lindsay mound, but generally tbe bones are not 

 as well preserved. 



There are several mounds in this group of grander proportions than 

 No. 37, which would doubtless prove of great interest if thoroughly ex- 

 amined — 300 or 400 cubic yards carefully removed from some of these 

 mounds v.oubl probably yield numy valuable and interesting results. 



In the group of mounds 2, 3, 4, a, C, and 7, (Diagram o,) the mounds 

 o and G are tbe site of a lecent burial-place. 



Mound No. 30 (Diagram No. 0) was examined by a ditch 5 i'eet wide 

 and 18 feet long, extending from the south side nortbwardlv bevond 



