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Louisa County — Continued. 



rial is found in this part though there is no charcoal or other evi- 

 dence of fire. On the north side the logs are lacking, but there 

 is a thin layer of pure clay. The material of the mound above 

 this layer of wood and clay was a very compact stiff clay loam, 

 with scattered patches of purer clay. In the northern part some 

 flint chips were found. About midway of the trench and two 

 feet from the floor some human bones were found (two femurs, a 

 clavicle, several bones of the left forearm and hand) all in a heap, 

 and with them a small worked flint. Several feet west of the 

 trench a copper awl was found standing upright and firmly im- 

 bedded in the clay base. Two feet beyond this and to the south 

 (?) were found four copper axes, two curved base pipes (one cyl- 

 indrical bowl was of calcite, the other of catliiiite, hawk-shaped, 

 with pearl eyes), a large block of mica in loose sheets, a second 

 awl, a crushed skull with skeleton attached. Under this skull one 

 of the axes lay, wrapped in a covering of cloth and bark. An- 

 other copper axe lay under the left shoulder of the skeleton, and 

 many dull and fragile beads of shell and pearl were taken from 

 the region of the neck and chest. Further excavation in this 

 same mound revealed an adult skeleton, male, with face up and 

 head to the north-west ; close by the right side, with head on the 

 level with the shoulders of the larger skeleton, was the skeleton 

 of a child of ten years. Beyond it was a third copper awl ; about 

 the legs and feet were shell beads. Three more copper awls 

 pierced the floor and stood upright in a line, from 18 inches to 

 36 inches from the feet of the skeletons ; the awls were about two 

 feet apart ; these awls were from 4 to 7 inches long, hammered 

 square except at lower pointed end; they are turned abruptly at 

 the top; their diameter .is about ;^^-inch. They may have served 

 to peg or pin down a skin or cloth covering placed over the dead. 

 The hard floor appears to have been basin-shaped. 



No. 8. Two hundred feet west of No. y ; this was the largest 

 of the group. It has been used by white men as a building site. 

 It has a diameter of 140 feet ; a height of 1 1 feet. At 9 feet down 

 was a floor of yellow clay i4-inch thick, laid upon the original 

 black loam surface; just above this clay floor was black earth. 

 Parts of four much decomposed skeletons were found, but no 

 relics. 



