STARR — SUMMARY OF THE ARCH.IiOLOGY OF IOWA. I07 



Muscatine County — Contimted. 



loess at Muscatine; a piece of Elephas tooth was found at the 

 same locality. Also 225 flint chips from loess on Mad Creek. 



On Schmale's Farm below Muscatine Gass 7^ examined a group 

 of five mounds 65 feet or so in diameter and from 5 feet to S feet 

 high. 



{li). The westernmost; 5 feet high; at bottom were two hor- 

 izontal skeletons, with heads to the east and west; the bones were 

 badly preserved. Pieces of charcoal and pottery found. 

 {p). One skeleton. 



{/). Eight feet high ; at a depth of 7 feet was a pit 2 by 3 feet 

 and I foot deep, with human leg and arm-bones and skull frag- 

 ments. 



{d'). Six feet high; at 3 feet down were three skeletons cov- 

 ered with pieces of wood; at their sides were pieces of pottery 

 and marine shells. 



((?). Smallest of the series; in it were a few human bones. 



All were composed of very hard clay. 



One mile west of the last group, on the Hershey farm, the 

 same writer describes a group of forty-six mounds in four con- 

 centric semi-circles ; all but two are simple conical mounds ; one 

 is oval ; one is long and narrow. They vary in height from 2 to 

 6 feet. Twelve were explored, of which some were burial 

 mounds; there was seldom more than one skeleton present; the 

 bones were badly decayed; ashes and charcoal occurred in all; 

 a few arrow-heads and potsherds were found. 



At the river close by relics from an old village site — potsherds, 

 flints, bones of animals and perhaps human beings constantly 

 wash out. They come from a depth of 2)2 feet, between the 

 black soil and the sand. 



Stevenson '^^ mentions eight or ten mounds in two parallel 

 lines on the Cedar River nine miles north of Muscatine. 



Also at nine miles south-west from Muscatine on high bluffs^ 

 Group G on the maiJ — eleven mounds in a line along the bluff 

 edge. They are about twenty feet apart; consist of clay and 

 gravel, the lower part mainly the latter. Seven were opened. 

 Most gave no objects. The largest yielded flint chips and char- 

 coal; in one, at 18 inches depth, was an intrusive burial, while 2 

 feet lower was a skull above a stone axe. 



