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Cerro Gordo County — Continued. 



nally i^ to 2 feet high, is circular, and measures about 15 feet 

 in diameter. At a depth sHghtly below the original surface of 

 the surrounding land was a horizontal layer of broken pottery, 

 the fragments having their concave side upward; numerous fin- 

 ished and unfinished arrow-points here. In the south-east part 

 of the mound, a few inches above the pottery layer, were found 

 several plates from the plastron of a turtle ; these may have been 

 interred after the mound was built. 



Cherokee County. 



Township pj, R. jp (Spring Township). On the banks of 

 Little Sioux River, at 3 feet below surface, Cutts 34 found frag- 

 ments of ornamented pottery. The river here is terraced at ten 

 to twelve feet in height; the upper six to eight feet is alluvial soil 

 — loess wash; below that is a grayish clay. The pottery frag- 

 ments are numerous, ornamented Avith cross and parallel lines and 



indentations; the ware is from ^ to ^ inch thick. A 



circle of stones about the size of the fist was found ; within it were 

 charcoals; above this were potsherds; then the bones of buffalo, 

 elk, and beaver. 



Chickasaw County. 



Near 0/d Chickasatv, on the west side of the Little Cedar 

 iliver, a group of ten mounds has been carefully described by 

 Webster. '^^ Their location, about one and one-half miles below 

 the town, is at the border of the first terrace, 20 to 40 feet above 

 the flood-plain at its base. A spring is situated at a distance of 

 about 260 yards to the south-east. The mounds are from 2 to 50 

 feet apart, are circular, round-topped, and measure from 22 to 51 

 feet in diameter, and from 1 3^ to 5 feet in height. The main 

 line of mounds runs north, a few degrees east. The others run 

 parallel to the main line. The mounds of particular interest were : 



No. I. Mound 22 feet in diameter and about i foot in height. 

 A few inches above the original surface was a thick bed of char- 

 coal and a large, thoroughly-burned oaken log 8 feet long and 1 2 

 inches thick ; there were no ashes to speak of. 



No. 2. This mound was graded down years ago ; its struct- 

 ure was as that of No. 4, but the mound was smaller ; at the 

 original surface two sitting skeletons were found ; the bones were 



