114 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Scott County — Continued. 



a Unio pustulosus with powdered red ochre. A quartz crystal in 

 centre of tablet over the human figure. Outside of and around 

 the vault were many decayed shells and some small potsherds. 

 No bones. 



Tablet, evenly stratified, non fossiliferous limestone ; about 

 123^ inches long, 73^ wide, x^A, thick. Under side a natural 

 cleavage. Upper side somewhat smoothed. An uncouth human 

 figure, astride a circle. Over his head a copper axe ; above this 

 at corners are bird-pipes, with eyes of quartz set in with some 

 white cement. Several characters, some like those on other tab- 

 lets. All these are incised; lines in small figures are ^-^ inch 

 in depth; in large, 3 or 4 times as deep, wide and coarse. Col- 

 ored deep, bright ochre red. Shows signs of heat, etc. 



Allen Farm Group. Situated six miles down the river from 

 Davenport, on the extreme edge of the bluff at a half mile from 

 the river ; the mounds are in a curve, following the bluff, with a 

 general trend north-east and south-west. They are overgrown 

 with brush. They are from one hundred to one hundred and 

 fifty feet apart and range from 2 feet to 5^ feet in height. They 

 are described by Pratt in three articles, '3°. 218. 219, and are num- 

 bered from the east end. 



No. I. Bones had been found herein previously. Pratt 



describes the later exploration. The mound was 30 feet in diam- 

 eter and 3 feet high. It yielded eight skulls and many bones ; 

 all were badly decomposed and were scattered except some long 

 bones which were laid side by side ; at about 2 feet depth were a 

 number of large, flat, rough slabs of limestone, irregularly placed ; 

 six flint implements were found, some of them immediately below 

 the long bones mentioned above ; at three feet from the centre 

 were a quantity of pottery fragments and near them a lot of 

 charred human bones. 



No. 2. At 4 feet down were four badly decayed and broken 

 skulls, with other bones ; no ribs or vertebrae were found and 

 probably but parts of the bodies were buried here ; the heads 

 are west ; a poor discoidal stone, two fragments of stone imple- 

 ments and two small beads of thin copper were obtained ; there 

 was no evidence of fire in the mound. 



No. 3. Nearly circular ; 30 to 40 feet in diameter and 2^ 

 feet high ; some arrow-heads are said to have been found. 



