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Scott County — Continued. 



ton preserved; one-half of lower jaw found three feet distant. 

 Of the other skull only the copper-soaked jaw-bone preserved 

 well, stained by axe. Between bodies, stone pipe; obsidian 

 arrow-point, obsidian flakes, small arrow-points of white chert, 

 near second head; also spoon of river turtle's scapula. 



In several mounds broken pottery occurred between surface 

 and deeper part as if pots had been placed on surface of mound. 



No. 10.^^ Ninety-five feet north-west of No. i, loo feet north- 

 east of No. 5. Smallest and least important; 15 feet diameter, 

 8 inches high. All in this row — 7, 5, 10, — are less elevated 

 than the others. At 6 inches depth was a closely-packed pile 

 of stones, about 3^^ feet long east and west, 2^4 feet from 

 north to south, 21-^ feet high. The pile rested on a hard 

 clay bottom, 3 feet from surface of ground. The cavity was 

 about 10 feet long east to west, 6 feet wide, over 2 feet deep, 

 rounded at corners and bottom. In the lowest layer of the pile 

 was a flat stone 2 feet long, 10 inches Y,'ide, 2 inches thick, with 

 smoother side downward. Beneath it were fragments of human 

 leg-bones pressed down into the clay. Two to 2^ feet west of 

 this pile, I to i^ feet below the surface, a layer of river shells 3 

 feet long north and south, 2^ feet wide, "i inch thick. This 

 layer was arched, the north and south edges being curved down- 

 ward. Shells badly decayed. Three or four inches below this 

 layer, directly under the middle, several pottery fragments and 

 three small polished stones. The pieces were nicely packed to- 

 gether in a little pile. No other relics or bones. 



No. I J. 7^ Sixty-five feet north of No. i, twenty-five feet south- 

 west of No. 9, of slight elevation. Dark soil and red clay mixed. 

 At 14 inches, large, angular pieces of rock laid closely together, 

 with smaller stones fitting places between, 2^ X3 feet; under 

 this a similar layer, etc. At about 3 feet down a flat, unwrought, 

 irregular stone, 14 inches square, \yi inches thick, horizontal. 

 It covered a space, in which lay a tablet; cavity a little larger 

 than tablet, and about 5 inches deep. The floor on which the 

 vault stood was of yellow clay, hard and very compact. Tablet 

 head lay east-north-east. Four flint arrows lay on the tablet with 

 points directed inward — one at top, one at bottom, one at each 

 side midway between top and bottom. On upper left hand corner 



