68 davenport academy of natural sciences. 



Clinton County. 



At Lyons was a square mound, with flat and level top measur- 

 ing 40 feet across, situated upon a bluff at some 200 feet above 

 the river. Farnsworth 49 reports that its height was perhaps 8 feet, 

 and that the structure was removed to fill in low ground in the 

 town. In excavating, heaps of bones were found both on the 

 east and the west sides of the mound ; the skulls were distorted 

 ("like specimens from Albany, Illinois "), but could not be pre- 

 served ; some of the long bones were broken and some were 

 gnawed before burial. Some of the skeletons of the eastern 

 heap, especially those near the middle of the mound, appeared to 

 have been buried extended; flat pieces of stone were laid over 

 some of the bones ; fires appear to have been kindled above 



some of the bone-heaps. An oval slate tablet 5 inches 



long and 3 inches wide, with two holes, was found here. 



Near the centre of the mound was a skeleton, well preserved, 

 seated ; about the neck were copper beads, and on the breast a 

 thin copper sheet, 4 inches square, badly eroded ; to the left were 

 a pipe of soft sandstone and a small, polished, stone axe. The 

 author considers this an intrusive burial. 



Three miles east of IVJieatland, on the bluffs of the Wapsi- 

 pinicon, is a group of nine low, conical mounds, averaging about 

 15 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height. Four were opened; 

 they were composed of a mixture of black soil and clay; no 

 bones, relics, nor traces of fire were found. 38 



Cyrus Thomas '74 cites Colonel Norris for mounds at Buetia 

 Vista. 



Crawford County. 



A group of eight mounds in a semi-circle below Dcnison are 

 reported by Fulton; 59 also a group of mounds at the mouth of 

 Paradise Creek. 



Delaware County. 



Moulton's 97 description is very imperfect; no locality is given, 

 and little information regarding the size of most of the mounds. 

 So far as we can make out from his description, three series of 

 earthworks enclose a square open on the west and comprising 

 about ten acres; the northern row runs nearly east and west, 

 slightly curving with the high ground on which it is located; the 



