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following result: In the center of the mound, and 26 inches below the 

 surface, was found three bundles of leg and arm bones, five skulls in 

 a cvusbed conditiou, and what appeared to be two pelvis bones much 

 decayed. In the center of this assemldage of bones was a small earthen 

 vase or urn, set upright. Associated with and distributed in the earth 

 above the bones were numerous pieces of charcoal, burned clay, and one 

 or two pieces of broken pottery. The bundles of bones, with on<-,excep- 

 tion, all lay m an easterly and westerly direction, while the skulls and 

 other bones were placed here without apparent order. Mostof the crania 

 were those of young adult individuals, one of them a babe with milk 

 teeth. Some of them however were those of very old persons, the crowns 

 of the teeth (the teeth in all the skulls were very large) all having been 

 worn down to and sometimes deeply into the dentine. The urn, which 

 was of the rudest form the writer has ever seen from any mound, was 

 nearly perfect. The bones, which were all in a poor state of preserva- 

 tion, were more or less calcined, some before and some after having been 

 placed in the mound. The charcoal (one piece found was 21 inches in 

 length and 4 inches in diameter) was of oak, and of the same species as 

 now abundantly occupies the region and the surface of some of the 

 mounds. The soil above and around the bones had been packed very 

 hard. 



No. 21, a circular mound, about 30 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height, 

 and 25 feet distant from No. 20. The surface of this mound was covered 

 by small hazel brush, and until recently by a growth of young oaks and 

 poplars. An exploration revealed a circular, oval mound of red burned 

 clay, 1 foot in thickness at the center and about 10 feet in diameter, 1 

 foot below the surface of the rest of the mound. Near the center of the 

 mound, and underneath the burned clay, were three bundles of bones, 

 sioailar to those found in other mounds of this series. Two of the bundles 

 lay directed 11 degrees east of south; the third bundle lay directed due 

 northwest and southeast. On the north end of the two first bundles 

 of bones reposed a crushed skull, and on the southeast end of the third 

 bundle was also a crushed cranium. These bones were all very much 

 charred by fire. Associated with these bundles of bones were large 

 quantities of other human bones, almost entirely consumed by burning. 

 In the black soil above the burned clay a few small pieces of oak char- 

 coal were found. Neither charcoal nor ashes, bones nor other relics, were 

 found in the burned clay. The following section (Fig. 2) will illustrate 

 the above description : 



Fig. 4. — Diagram of luouud No. 21. (1) Burued cl.iy ; (2) black lioiiiDgeiicoiis drift 

 soil. 



