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mound 3, 1 of a group of 4 in the same locale, had also been exten- 

 sively disturbed, but Fowke (1910, p. 12) was of the belief that a 

 vault had once existed. A few potsherds and a skull fragment were 

 all that remained in the disturbed fill. 



Broadhead (1880, p. 352) makes brief mention of a walled mound 

 on the bluffs of Prairie Fork in Montgomery County. The enclosure 

 is described as being 10 feet square with walls 2 feet high when 

 visited in 1859. A few human bones were found. This location (fig. 

 20, 11) is a few miles north of the Missouri, about opposite the mouth 

 of Gasconade River. So far as published records go, there is appar- 

 ently still no evidence to contravene Fowke's observation (Fowke, 

 1910, p. 73) that the Gasconade represents the approximate eastern 

 limit of occurrence of the chambered burial mounds on the Missouri 

 River. 



A few miles northeast of this locality, however, on small streams 

 flowing into the Mississippi, similar structures do occur. Watkins 

 (1883, p. 537) reports numerous mounds on the bluffs along Cuivre 

 and Indian Creeks in southern Pike County, Mo. (fig. 20, 13). Some 

 were of earth, others of earth and rock, and a few had rectangular 

 vaults containing human remains. Concerning one of the latter he 

 observes (p. 538) that "in a rectangular vault, 4 by 5 feet, were found 

 the remains of eight skeletons, with a few pieces of pottery." Nearby 

 was "a vault made of flat rocks, in the shape of a coffin, containing 

 a few pieces of cranial bones, very much decayed." Still another 

 "large vault, the dimensions of which we did not have time to deter- 

 mine, contained human remains, much decayed, among which were 

 found three flint arrow-heads, a small vessel molded of clay and 

 burnt, and a pipe carved out of steatite, having upon its front a 

 figurehead." 



In the extreme northern part of the county, on a ridge between 

 Salt River and the Mississippi (fig. 20, 15), Broadhead (1880, p. 351) 

 noted rough limestone walls that "inclosed two vaults, each 9 feet 

 square, and from 2 to 3 feet in height." Presumably, as Fowke infers, 

 Broadhead thought that the two chambers comprised a single burial 

 place. One of the chambers, vault A, had a narrow opening, appar- 

 ently a walled passage, leading out of one corner ; this has the legend 

 "Rock removed" on the original sketch (Broadhead, 1880, fig. 1). 

 Bones only are mentioned as having been found. Broadliead stated 

 that other similar tombs had existed in the county but the stones had 

 been hauled away for building purposes. It is of interest in this 

 connection to learn that farther west on Salt River, in western Ralls 

 County (fig. 20, i^), other multicelled stone burial structures have 

 been reported (Hardy and Scheetz, 1883). Thus, of Wilsons Knob 

 on the left side of Salt River, these authors say (p. 536) that — 



its crest is about 120 feet long, completely covered with stone to the depth of 



