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One pot of globular wide-mouthed typo is figured (Fowke, 1910, 

 jfig. 6), but descriptive details are lacking. The vault had been built 

 partly over a grave containing 2 extended burials. 



Mound 11, 50 feet in diameter by 6 to 9 feet high, presented a rather 

 more complicated situation (Fowke, 1910, pp. 36-39) . The vault walls, 

 3 feet 2 inches high and leaning outward at the top, formed a rectangle 

 whose floor was 9 by 7 feet. The entire southwest end had been left 

 unwalled, being closed only with dirt and an outer shell of stones. On 

 the floor lay the remains of six bodies, which had been cremated else- 

 where and carried in. Three other extended skeletons had been burned 

 in situ; one was accompanied by three bone beads, another by an un- 

 described pot. In the corners were burnt bones intermingled with 

 unburnt, among them a whole vessel and parts of several others. 

 Above the bones and artifacts the vault had been filled with earth 

 to the top. 



Above and outside the vault walls, and in Fowke's opinion bearing 

 "no relation to the original character of the structure," were a number 

 of other burials. One, extended and supine, lay on a slab pavement 

 surrounded by stones set on edge and covered with other slabs orig- 

 inally supported by cross timbers. Other bones, representing the 

 remains of several cremated bodies, were in and below a bricklike 

 mixture of clay, charcoal, and ashes, all of which had been burned 

 elsewhere and later interred in the mound. Two bodies lying side 

 by side slightly below the level of the topmost stones in the vault had 

 been burned on the spot. Three whole pots were associated with these 

 last skeletons, and the fragments of at least four were found among 

 the other cremated remains. There were also two elbow-shaped pipes 

 (Fowke, 1910, figs. 7 and 8). One was of clay; the other, of soft 

 white chalklike material, had a bulbous bowl and "somewhat resembles 

 the 'monitor' type." 



Mound 13, largest of the Dawson group (Fowke, 1910, pp. 39-42), 

 was 50 feet across by 10 feet high. It yielded evidences of a disturbed 

 upper vault 6 feet 3 inches long inside, which contained fragmentary 

 deer and human bones, some marine-shell beads, and pieces of a pot. 

 Below this was a larger chamber, quadrilateral with rounded corners, 

 and having a floor area 11 feet 2 inches by 7 feet. Height of the walls 

 approximated 3 feet 6 inches, their thickness about the same. The 

 doorway, filled with earth and rocks, was to the southwest. The north 

 half of the vault was filled with burnt and unburnt earth, some of 

 bricklike hardness, which is supposed to have been carried in. No 

 skeletal remains occurred in this material, but on and just above the 

 floor were numerous burnt bones and fragments. Parts of an extended 

 skeleton, not charred, were noted, and here and there were a few other 

 unburnt bones. Scattered among these remains were two bone beads 



