I02 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Mills County — Continued. 



enclosed on three sides by heights and opening to the south upon 

 Keg Creek. Potsherds are abundant over the area, and arrow- 

 heads, drills, scrapers, celts and a "turtle-back" were found; the 



arrow-heads were small but well made. On the crest of the 



south end of the encircling ridges is an ancient workshop ; the 

 place is strewn with flint chips and potsherds ; at the base of the 

 hill were found a drilled tooth for a bead, a bone implement, mus- 

 sel-shells, bones, and worked flints. On the west bank of 



the stream, a little east of the group of circles, was a pottery fac- 

 tory ; great numbers of fragments occur here together with pieces 



of tempering stone. The pottery of the district is rude, 



made of clay tempered with pounded stones; ornamentation 

 consists of curved lines, indentations, checker-work, cob-marking 

 and circle marks. 



Half a mile east of the Tipton mound is another unopened 



mound, with a group of three or four circles about it. 



North and west of Glenwood about four miles, on the old Pacific 



City road, is a low mound with accompanying lodge circles. 



Five miles north of Glenwood, on the Glenwood and St. Mary's 



road, is a mound with several lodge circles. Seven miles 



north-west of Glenwood, at the head of Indian Hollow, is a group 

 of three small mounds and one lodge circle. This locality is four 

 miles north of the Tipton mound. 



East of Glenwood, at eight miles distance on Silver Creek are 

 several small mounds of little elevation upon a high ridge on the 

 east side of the creek near Lem's Mill. One mound excavated 

 revealed great quantities of red burnt earth scattered through the 

 mound with an occasional lump of black earth and some char- 

 coal. No other relics. Indian graves occur on neighboring hills 

 and corn-pits were found here early. 



Three miles north of Pacific City and four miles north-west of 

 the Tipton mound, upon a high divide, lies a mound loo feet by 

 70 feet and 15 feet high; composed of surface soil, with scattered 

 flint chips, charcoal and ashes in it, no results of interest came 

 from its excavation. A large lodge circle is located one hundred 

 yards south-west. A turtle-back celt is reported as found on the 

 bluffs five miles north of Pacific City ; large grooved implements 

 have been found at Glenwood. Of particular interest is the 



