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Floyd County — Contiuued. 



skull was markedly neanderthaloid (Fig. 1 2); the forehead was low; 

 the inner portion of the brow-ridges was prominent ; the skull was 

 small ; from the lower part of the nasal bones to the upper mar- 

 gin of the orbits was but 4 cm.; the distance from orbit to orbit, 

 midway between their upper margins and the lower part of the 

 nasal bones was 2^ cm. Most of the skulls were crushed; one 

 jaw had teeth well preserved. The skull of the babe was very 

 thick; the teeth were small. The man was nearly six feet high; 



the crowns of his teeth were much worn down. This mound 



appears to be very ancient ; the limestone fragments in the floor 

 are much decomposed. 



A small mound near Floyd is reported to have yielded a skel- 

 eton. ^^4 



A peculiar mound is described by Webster/^/ in a low, level 

 spot at about the centre of the S.-E. y^ Sec. 5, Twp. 95, R. 17 

 N., one-half mile west from Flood Creek. It is 16 feet in diam- 

 eter and I foot high ; circular at ba.se, it is flat-topped, except a 

 rounded ridge 8 or 10 inches high and i foot wide at the outer 

 edge of the surface area. A trench 10 inches deep and i foot 

 wide is around the base. The mound is overgrown with trees. 

 The structure of the mound was found to be — 



{a) Decomposed vegetation and earth. 

 - (Jl) Charcoal layer. 



{/) Bed of ashes. 



\d) Soil. 



This order was repeated ; the natural surface then reached 

 showed no particular evidence of strong heat; the charcoal, in 

 large pieces and well preserved, appears to be of poplar wood; 

 no bones or relics were found (Fig. 13). 



Fig. 13. 



The same author '^^ describes a grave on low, dry ground in 

 Carman' s Woods, near the meeting of the Beaver Dam Brook and 

 Shellrock River, one-half mile north of Rockford. The grave 

 was 7 feet long, 2^2 feet wide, \}^ feet high, and 3 feet deep; it 



