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Floyd County — Continued. 



fashion, and measured lo feet in length, 7 feet in width, and more 

 than 3 feet in height; other logs were tightly fitted over the top. 



One mile below the last locality, on the south bank of the 



Cedar River, were several graves of Winnebago children. The 

 bodies had been placed on the ground and enclosed on all sides 

 by 12-inch logs; the space was then filled up with earth, which 

 was heaped up 13 inches or so (Webster ^^^^). 



Webster also describes '^5 a group of three mounds on the west 

 side of Cedar River, one-half mile east of Floyd. They are sit- 

 uated on a high, level space, 50 feet above and 220 yards back 

 from the stream, midway between two points; they form a slightly 

 curved line. They are low, circular, and separated from each 

 other by intervals of about 20 feet. The largest and easternmost 

 mound is about 30 feet in diameter, and was once 2 feet high ; 

 the smallest is perhaps natural. In the largest were five well- 

 preserved skeletons. The structure of the mound shows that the 

 surface had first been excavated into a basin shape to a depth of 

 33^ feet; the basin was then macadamized with gravel and frag- 

 ments of limestone; on the center of this floor the five skeletons 

 had been placed in a sitting position, facing north, and with the 

 feet drawn under the body ; a thin layer of earth was piled above 

 them, then 9 inches of earth and ashes in which were a few bits 

 of fine-grained charcoal; the remaining four feet was nearly all 

 red from heat; the whole material was rammed or pounded hard; 



Fig. 12. 



the soil about the bodies was deeply stained from decomposition. 

 The westernmost skeleton was that of a woman of middle age ; 

 six inches east of it was an infant's skeleton; to the north, and 

 close by the babe, was the skeleton of a large, middle-aged man; 

 skeletons of two young adults lay east and south of the babe. 

 The woman was apparently of low grade, and well muscled ; the 



