120 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Van Buren County — Continued. 



tained, under the hard core and at depth of original surface, de- 

 cayed human bones and three fragments of dark-colored pottery. 



No. 14 yielded nothing. 



No. 15, of same size as No. 12, contained scarcely more than 

 traces of a skeleton which lay with head north, beneath a very 

 hard core. 



Negus '°^ refers to mounds near Kilbourne. Two opened 

 yielded human bones; the mounds were 130 feet in circumfer- 

 ence and 6 feet high. 



From far above Pittsburg to a point several miles below Keo- 

 sauqua, according to Evans, 4^ a continuous chain of works is to 

 be seen. 



The Dahlbergs35 describe pottery found near the mouth of 

 Chequest Creek at Pittsburg, on the Des Moines River; the paste 

 was composed of clay and sand mixed with small pebbles ; the 

 pottery was hard, firm and durable; vessels of at least 18 inches 

 diameter at the mouth appear to have been represented among 

 the fragments; rude ornamentation of nodes and incised lines; 



some edges were crimped. They also mention a bed of 



ashes and charcoal 3 inches thick and 2 feet from the surface, in 

 the river bank. 



Evans ■*+ describes mounds between Pittsburg and Keosauqua. 

 Thus in N.-E.}{ S.E.]/^ Sec. 3 (see map) is a mound on a bluff 

 point, two hundred feet from the water's edge, and one hundred 

 feet above the stream. In it, at 2 feet down, was found a human 

 skeleton, except the lower jaw and leg-bones, with potsherds ; the 

 head of the skeleton was toward the south-east; the skull was 



somewhat Neanderthaloid. Fifteen rods north 55° west from 



last, was a half-moon-shaped mound, about two hundred feet from 



the water's edge; thigh-bones were found in it. Fifteen rods 



north 45" west from last was a mound, which yielded only a small 

 fragment of pottery. 



In the N.-W.%, S.-IV.^ Sec. 2, (see map) at thirty rods south 

 45" east from the mouth of Ely's Creek, one hundred feet above 

 the water and twenty rods from its edge, was a mound 60 feet in 

 diameter and 5 feet 6 inches high. At 5 feet down was a thigh- 

 bone; an upper arm-bone and fresh-water shells were also found. 



White '95. i9C>and Evans 4+ describe the shell heap at Keosauqua, 



