STARR — SUMMARY OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF IOWA. 



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FaBTi'teATtoa. 



AsASBeSED dUAHSEl OF L. C. B 



FLOOD PLANE 



ItlTLE CZDA-R BiVB, 





Floyd County — Cotitinitcd. 



One-third of a mile south of the line of mounds, at a lower 



level, were several other round mounds which were not explored. 



Eight miles north-east from Charles City, on the S.-W. y^ 



N.-W. % Sec. 36, Twp. 96, 

 R. 15, an ancient earthwork 

 lies on the east side of the 

 Little Cedar River. The 

 country is broken and irreg- 

 ular ; the earthwork is about 

 one hundred and fifty feet 

 from an abandoned channel 

 of the river, and about the 

 same distance from a ravine 

 on the south-east, tributary 

 f^iG. 12. to the Little Cedar; the beds 



of these channels are 1 8 to 20 feet below the fortification. The 

 earthwork is 124 feet long, 16 feet wide at base, 2^ feet high; 

 it is composed of ordinary soil ; it trends 1 7^ W. of N. Arrow- 

 heads are not uncommon in the neighI)orhood. (Fig. 12.) 



In the ^Ung woods'' on the west side of the Little Cedar, 

 seven miles below the above locality, are three mounds of drift 

 bowlders and soil. The)- are 2^4 feet high, 2 feet wide, and from 

 4 to 7 feet long. 



Two miles north-west of Charles City is a group of four Indian 

 graves on high, dry ground, north from a small creek. They are 

 close together ; three extend north-east and south-west, while the 

 other is north and south ; three are graves of adults and are 7 

 feet long, while the other is that of a child and is 3^2 feet long. 

 They are perhaps Winnebago graves. One-fourth mile west- 

 south-west is a grave where a Winnebago was Ijuried in 1849— 

 1850. Wrapped in his blanket he was laid out at length, extend- 

 ing north-east and south-west, on a level space back from a creek. 

 Slabs of green wood 3 feet long were placed over his body in an 

 inverted V-shape, meeting at the top. The ends of the enclosure 

 were covered over with other slabs. At the head was. a post of 

 green wood, 6 inches in diameter, driven into the ground ; this 

 post was peeled and bore characters. A tight log crib was built 

 about this enclosure; it was of green logs laid up in log-cabin 



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