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Floyd County — Continued. 



*2j. Twenty-five feet distant ; circular, flattened, 30 feet in 

 diameter, i foot high. 



"^24. Twenty-five feet distant ; circular, 45 feet in diameter, 

 ii^ feet high. 



^25. Twenty feet distant ; circular, 45 feet in diameter, 3 

 feet high ; a few scattered fragments of charcoal and burnt clay ; 

 the whole is packed hard. 



*2<5. Fifty-three feet distant ; 33 feet in diameter, 3 feet 

 high ; a few small bits of oak charcoal. 



27. Five feet distant ; same form but smaller. 



28. Forty feet distant; circular, 24 feet diameter, i foot high. 

 Several mounds in this group yielded interesting results, thus: 

 No. g. From 20 inches and downward pottery fragments 



were found. On the natural surface of the ground was a bundle 

 of human arm and leg-bones, lying east and west; on the east 

 end of these was a crushed and somewhat separated cranium, some 

 parts very thick, with large and strong teeth; these parts pertained 



to a young adult. Two feet north-east of this was a similar 



bundle, directed a few degrees south of east; on the east end of 

 this bundle lay part of a crushed skull; these somewhat charred. 



A few feet south-east a similar bundle, directed 13° south 



of east; no skull. A few feet north-west of the first bundle, 



another, lying east and west, without skull. Evidence of 



fire, bits of charcoal, burned clay, and heated limestones scat- 

 tered through mound. A former exploration had removed 



a skull and some bone-bundles. All the bones in the mound 



show some evidence of calcination, but all but second bundle 

 apparently burned elsctvhere. 



No. II. At 10 inches depth, and slightly east of the centre, 

 a piece of broken pottery and a few small fragments of charcoal. 

 No signs of fire built here. 



No. 12. Numerous pieces of hard-burned clay from outside 

 scattered through it. At 10 inches part of a calcined femur. No 

 signs of fire. 



No. 14. In centre, at 10 inches depth, an imperfect dog's (?) 

 skull, facing the south-west. Near this skull and 7 inches below 

 it were five quite closely-associated bundles of leg and arm-bones; 

 in three cases crushed skulls were on the west end of bundles, 



* Opened by Webster. 



