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work in such sites it seems worth while to record such data as were 

 then obtained. 



The point on which these mounds and quarries occur is shghtly 

 higher than the Hne of similar hills or blutTs bordering both sides of 

 the Weeping Water on this part of its course. These bluiTs rise 

 rather sharply and in many places are marked just below their crest 

 by apparently artificially formed trenches averaging perhaps 15 feet 

 across and from 3 to 5 feet deep. These trenches now present a 

 rounded concave surface shaped by long-continued wash from the 

 surrounding banks. A typical surface section of one of these (trench 

 A, fig. 27) is shown in pi. 20, fig. 3. The sharp banks of the creek 

 here are heavily wooded, but the tops of the rolling hills are either 

 only slightly brush-covered or else cultivated. As Dr. Gilmore's map 

 (fig. 27) indicates, there are at least eight slight rises or mounds on 



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 " bundle " burials ; 2, flint knife or side scraper ; 3, stemmed arrowpoint ; 4, 

 obsidian chip. 



the point in question just back from the presumed quarry pits or 

 trenches. The most northerly of these are covered at present by 

 much-weathered slabs of limestone of all sizes, but two of the 

 southerly mounds ( i and 2) are covered by soil and in a sparse thicket 

 of oak trees. Mound i had been partially removed by the road 

 builders, but mound 2 at the time of our first visit was untouched. 

 The latter was an irregularly circular rise roughly 48 feet in diameter 

 and 2 feet higher in the central portion than the surrounding level of 

 the hilltop. The other mounds were even more irregular and less 

 marked. Because of the rough terrain at the end of the point, it is hard 

 to tell whether the northerly elevations are mounds or merely irregular 

 rock piles resulting from earlier quarrying activities. They were not 

 excavated. 



Mound 2 (fig. 27) was the only one trenched, and the diagram (fi^. 

 28) showing the west face of this excavation gives a cross-section of 

 over half the mound. The surface was covered with from 12 to 17 

 inches of dark humous soil containing neither limestone slabs nor 



