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of ashes. At 2 feet down was a skeleton with head to the north ; 

 the bones were well preserved; no relics found. 



No. 2. Above was gravel; then black soil; then ashes and 

 black soil; lastly gravel. Some fragments of bones and potsherds 



were in the black soil and the ashes and black soil. Two 



other mounds previously opened by Nash and Cotton lay on south 

 side of railroad. 



No. J. On a lofty ridge ; two adult and one child skeletons ; 

 also the bones of a horse; also a pipe here. Lower down was an 

 adult skeleton, with a dog's skeleton wrapped in buckskin; here 

 were six iron bracelets, fifteen feet of wampum, a grinding stone, 

 and a red pipestone disk pipe. The skeleton had copper ear orn- 

 aments the oxydation of which had preserved the skin and hair in 

 contact with them. This mound was within a stone-circle. 



No. 4. Yielded a finely made discoidal stone, an arrow-head, 

 a small maul of reddish granitic rock, part of a jar, and some hard 

 bone fragments. Two lines of stones, six or seven feet apart, 

 crossed the ends of this mound. The discoidal stone is of fine- 

 grained, dark material, beautifully polished; the two round faces 

 are concave and the truly circular outer rim is convex ; the speci- 

 men is about 6 inches in diameter and is perforated by a central 

 hole of about half an inch in diameter; the thickness varies from 

 less than half an inch at the inner edge to i J>2 inches at the thick- 

 est part. For fuller particulars re- 

 garding the stone circles see refer- 

 ences. '^5- '^7 



Lewis ^5 redescribes the bowlder 

 circles and rings described by Starr. 

 South of the track he men- 

 tions a large inclosure or fort, with low 

 walls. Within are no circles though 



there are some without. Less 



than a mile north of this locality is 

 another, where stone circles formerly 

 existed. Many have disappeared. One 

 part circle being visible the rest was 

 dug out from the soil which had cov- 

 feet diameter. In another paper 



^ ft. 

 Fig. 17. 

 ered it. This one was 



