STARR SUMMARY OF THE ARCH.tOLOGY OF IOWA. II5 



Scott County — Continued. 



No. 4. Originally 4 feet or 5 feet high, this had long been 

 removed ; bones of three skeletons, and a sea-shell were found. 



No. 5. Had been removed to make room for a house. Re- 

 mains of several skeletons, including one or two good shells, were 

 found ; one of these is broad at base, " gothic formed," and has 

 had several rondelles cut from it on each side. 



No. 6. Removed in part for a croquet ground ; parts of sev- 

 eral skeletons and tv\'0 rather light, well-burned earthen jars. 



What was left of it was examined. It was of mixed clay and 

 black earth, with a few small gravel stones, two or three flint 

 flakes and a piece of limestone. This last is a rough fragment 

 about 10 inches long, 3 inches wide and 1^2 inches thick ; it was 

 near the south end of the mound, upright, with its upper rather 

 pointed end about a foot and a half below the sod. Under 4 

 feet of the mixed earth the undisturbed yellow clay was met ; this 

 was the bottom of an excavation made to i/^-foot below the nat- 

 ural surface ; it was basin-shaped and from 6 feet to 8 feet across, 

 being largest from north to south. Part of the body of a human 

 cervical vertebrae was found in the mound ; also a well made plain 

 red and gray catlinite pipe, an oval stone about i|^ inches by i^ 

 inches and i inch thick, and a potsherd. These were all at about 

 3 feet down. 



"Two mounds in Rockingham examined by Tiffany ^'^ con- 

 tained decomposing skeletons to the number of about a dozen in 



each. In a mound in the same locality, already somewhat 



excavated, he found a small wheel like a pulley made of burnt 

 clay and pounded shells, a red pipestone pipe, three sea-shells — 

 Cassis madagascarensis. The bones found here were badly de- 

 composed. 



A low, ^2 -foot high, mound on the Heidt farm below Rock- 

 ingham ; it is alongside the River Road. The elevation consists 

 chiefly of stone ; under there is the usual mixed earth ; a few 

 poorlv preserved bones and two flint arrow-heads were found. 3" 



StaffelbacJi s Farm, seven miles below the city of Davenport ; 

 three-eighths of a mile from the river. A mound on crest of a 

 spur bearing south of west from main bluff here prominent as 

 Eagle Point. Mound about 25 feet long, 2 feet high. Surface 

 of black soil for 6 to 1 2 inches ; next a burnt indurated clay, in 



