STARR SUMMARY OF THE ARCHEOLOGY OF IOWA. 9 1 



Louisa County — Continued. 



feet in diameter ; 6 feet high ; at 2 feet down were three badly 

 decayed (intrusive?) skeletons; on the south side were two skel- 

 etons, male and female, heads west and east respectively, and feet 

 meeting at the centre. The material for 6 feet was mixed black 

 earth and clay. 



Sec. 24 (N.-W. yi^ S.-E. y^'). Group of six mounds in cres- 

 cent, on prominent point of bluff; west of the group is a field 

 containing hundreds of mounds. Two of the group are partic- 

 ularly mentioned by Gass.^3 



{a). The southernmost of the group, in the extreme north- 

 Avest corner of the S.-E. y of the section. It is about 100 feet 

 in diameter and 8 feet in height; for 6 feet — "down to original 

 soil" — it consists of mixed earth with flint fragments; next a 

 layer i^o feet thick of clay and sand, in which was a flint knife 

 and a perforator ; below this were four skeletons with heads west, 

 and some bones and skull fragments; near the second skeleton 

 was a dark red stone pipe and a suiall copper axe; another exca- 

 vation on the east side yielded two skeletons, with two pipes near 

 the skulls, a portion of the bones of a child, and a few copper 

 beads. 



{b). Forty-five feet north-east of the last; 45 feet in diame- 

 ter; 3^2 feet high; at 4 feet down were three badly decayed 

 skeletons with heads toward the west; fragments of flint and pot- 

 tery were found. These two mounds were excavated by Mr. 

 Kallenberger. 



Sec. 2j (S.-W. y N.-E. y). Blumer ^3 reports regarding 

 the mounds at the extreme edge of the prominent point of the 

 bluff; ravines open into the valley at either side. 



JVo. I. It is a flattened cone, 30 feet in diameter and 3 feet 

 high; the first i^ feet were of hard clay showing here and there 

 fire action ; next came a layer of hard red burned clay, oval in 

 form, 5 feet in shorter diameter, 3 feet thick at centre, diminish- 

 ing to 3 inches at the edges; then came a body of ashes, 13 inches 

 thick at middle and diminishing outward to the edges; in this 

 bed, a few inches from the bottom, were a part of a carved stone 

 bird pipe, a small copper axe, and an elephant pipe. 



JVo. 2. Farm of P. Haas, fifty yards west of No. i, in the 

 second row of the group, extending north and south, approxi- 



