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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



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altar of mound No. 3 of the Turner group of mounds, in the 

 Little Miami valley, Ohio, several ear-ornaments made of iron, 

 and several others overlaid with iron. With these were also 

 found a number of separate pieces that were thought to be iron. 

 They were covered with cinders, charcoal, pearls (two bushels 

 were found in this group of mounds), and other material, ce- 

 mented by an oxide of iron, showing that the whole had been 

 subjected to a high temperature. On removing the scale, Dr. 

 Keunicutt found that they were made of iron of meteoric ori- 

 gin.' One of the pieces weighed 28 and the other 52 grains. 



In the autumn of 1883, a mass was found on the altar of a 

 mound, No. 4 of this same group, which weighed 767.5 grammes 

 (27.25 ounces). Dr. Keunicutt suggested that these were all 

 parts of some larger meteoric mass. The results of the investi- 



FiG. 4.— Kiowa County Pallaslte. 



Fig. 5.— Turner Mound Pallasite. 



gation were published in connection with the description of the 

 Atacama meteorites, because in structure they approached more 

 closely to the latter than to those of any other occurrence known 

 at that time. In the Liberty group of mounds in the same val- 

 ley. Prof. Putnam found a celt five inches long, and in another 

 of the Turner mounds an ornament five inches long and three 

 inches wide, made also of the same meteoric iron. 



The Carroll County meteorite was found in 1880, about three- 

 quarters of a mile from Eagle Station, Carroll County, Ken- 

 tucky, ten miles from the mouth of the Kentucky River, and 

 about seven miles in a direct line from both the Kentucky and 

 the Ohio Rivers. The distance to the Turner mounds, where 

 Prof. Putnam found the meteoric iron and the ornaments 



' Sixteenth and Seventeenth Reports of the Peabody Museum of Archae- 

 ology, p. 383. 



