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Johnson County — Continued. 



No. 6. A circular mound with long oval mound attached. 

 No relics. 



No. 12. Somewhat like No. 6. Unexplored. 

 The general material of all is yellow, homogeneous loess, with 

 dark earth above. No dug holes in the neighborhood. All are 

 wooded. 



Davis, 4° apparently in reference to this same group, states that 

 when skeletons were found they were usually sitting, or lying 



down with legs bent as if 

 for sitting ; the skeletons 

 were covered with wood 

 ashes from i inch to i^ 

 inches deep; one male 

 adult cranium was small, 

 although the upper jaw was 



very large. In this 



reference a clay vessel or 

 jug is said to have been 

 found with a child's skel- 

 eton (cf. Webster's mound 

 No. I ?) This vessel is de- 

 scribed here and also by 

 How. 79 It is grayish- 

 black, with a round body 

 3 inches in diameter; on 

 one side is a circle with 

 two cross-lines and some 

 dots ; the top part narrows 

 to a neck and is developed 

 to resemble a turtle's beak; 

 a spout or aperture on one 

 Fig. 16. side has about the diame- 



ter of a man's finger; the material is pounded stone with clay; 

 the vessel is hard-burned, and is rough and unglazed. 



On the other side of the valley and further down is a group 

 of five round mounds upon a high ridge. '^9 



At the mouth of Turkey Creek is a circular mound on the 

 brow of a limestone cliff 100 feet high.'^^ 



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