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dently been carried in. Bits of burnt bone and siliceous iron ore were 

 also present. Mound 3 contained a rectangular chamber 8 feet long, 

 with walls up to 26 inches high. The doorway, walled as usual, open- 

 ed to the south. On the vault floor lay the burnt bones of an adult 

 and a child ; underneath, but i^resumably still a part of the same tomb, 

 was an excavated slab-floored grave, which held a few scattered bits 

 of calcined bone. 



Two other mounds, on the farm of J. P. Brenner in Platte County, 

 were also examined (Fowke, 1910, pp. 69-72). The first, identified 

 by Fowke as Broadhead's No. 3, had a nearly square chamber S feet 

 4 inches long, with walls up to 3 feet high, and a passage opening to 

 the east. The second, corresponding to either No. 6 or No. 7 of 

 Broadhead, disclosed a rectangular vault about 8 feet long, with 

 sloping walls 3 feet 8 inches high. The doorway on the south side 

 was walled. On the vault floor, where thev seemed to have been dug 

 out and replaced by earlier excavators, were four flat stones covering 

 the femora and skull fragments of two adults and an immature indi- 

 vidual. All these bones "were much gnawed by mice." 



Fowke also (pp. 72-73) commented briefly on the Klamm mound, a 

 short distance north of Brenner's, which had been completely torn 

 out in 1906. There is nothing in his remarks to indicate the presence 

 of a chamber, although stones had been thrown out. Potsherds 

 scattered about indicated "by varying decoration that not fewer than 

 four vessels" had been destroyed, and the last excavator claimed to 

 have found "nine whole pots, but broke seven of them, in getting 

 them out. One of the pots was much larger than the others and had 

 angels stuck on all around . . ." These "angels", we may suppose, 

 were probably effigies attached to the rim or upper part of the pot. 

 Shells and shell beads, j'ellow paint, flints, hoes, arrows, etc., as well 

 as three whole skulls were likewise said to have been found. The 

 relative abundance of pottery and other artifacts in this mound con- 

 trasts strikingly with the extreme rarity of specimens in the cham- 

 bered barrows of the district. It will be recalled that the earth mounds 

 opened by Curtiss and, more recently, by Shippee, have also yielded 

 cultural remains in some quantity. I am tempted to believe that the 

 Klamm mound did not include a vault, but hasten to point out that 

 this view is only an opinion and cannot be proved, or for that matter 

 disproved, by any reliable evidence now at hand. 



The Brenner-Keller-Klamm mound group, comprising all the exca- 

 vations along Line Creek just considered (fig. 20, S), includes the 

 largest aggregation of chambered mounds recorded on this portion 

 of the Missouri. Fowke says there were 18 in 1907; West, in 1877, 

 counted 25. Smaller clusters are known to exist within a few miles, 

 all on the north side of the river. Shippee writes (letter of February 



