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Floyd County — Continued. 



an arrow-head, and flint chips; all of these were burned after 

 being placed here; i foot below the pottery were parts of a 

 human skeleton. An earlier explorer found pottery and a good 



net-sinker. The pottery found showed a combination of 



net and basket and separate cord markings; the vessels were in 

 some cases smoothed, all were of moderate thickness, of a reddish 

 yellow color, and made of clay, fine gravel, and powdered gran- 

 ite. Parts of six vessels were found ; one of the largest and best 

 reconstructed had a diameter at mouth of 2o}4 cm.; a maximum 

 diameter of 31 cm.; a height of 16 cm. The neck was sharply 



constricted. Several of the six vessels had a similar form. 



About six feet north-east of the mound is a depression 10 feet in 

 diameter and i yC feet deep, whence the material may have been 

 taken. Along the abandoned river channel, forty rods north- 

 west of the mound, broken pottery, some unlike that from the 

 mound, is found on the lower and level space; also arrow-points, 

 lance-points, drills, flint chips, hammers, etc. 



{if) One-half mile north-east of last, on the end of the brow 

 of the ridge near the Cedar River. The mound is circular, with 

 diameter of 20 feet and height of 2 feet. It was long since 

 opened, and yielded pottery fragments. Other relics have been 

 found near by — very rude arrow-heads; a spear-head; a fine 

 knife of milky quartz, 7^ cm. long, 3 cm. wide, and tapering 

 toward each end ; a beautifully symmetrical ovate plummet, with a 

 longitudinal groove about it — length, 51^ cm., diameter, ^y^ cm. 



(r) Opposite No. 14, on the second ridge, west of the line of 

 mounds. It measured from north to south 42 feet; from west to 

 east 30 feet; i foot high. About 3 feet from the base of the 

 north-east part of the mound is a saucer-shaped depression, about 

 22 feet in diameter and i foot deep; a long, shallower depression 

 exists along the whole east side; these spots apparently supplied 

 the material for the mound. At i foot below the original sur- 

 face, near the north-eastern part of the mound, were several leg 

 and arm-bones and part of a calcined skull carelessly placed. 

 Five feet south of here were remains of a second body, with the 

 leg-bones and arm-bones more completely calcined; in general 

 the long bones lay north and south ; they had apparently been 

 calcined elsewhere; a few pieces of charcoal, potsherds, and flint 

 chips were fouiid near the surface. 



