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more carefully done than in excavation number two. Many of the crania 

 found here are fairly well preserved, although the condition of all of them 

 indicates that a considerable length of time has elapsed since they were 

 deposited in that place. The human skeletons were irregularly deposited 

 in different directions and mostly in an extended or nearly extended 

 position. They covered an area about seven by ten feet in size, and they 

 lay upon a stratum of burnt earth about three inches in thickness and 

 containing fragments of burnt or charred bones. This stratum rested 

 upon six large stones and soil which had been placed upon the original 

 surface of the ground . A small rudely formed bone article some what like 

 an awl was found with the skeletons. 



The humerus is perforated in many of the skeletons, and there are 

 supernumerary or Wormian bones in some of the crania. 



But, as to the form and capacity of the human crania it must be 

 observed, that, when compared with those of other races they stand 

 fairly high. 



Excavation No. 4. 



Excavation number four was in that part of the mound immediately 

 east of the trench dug by Mr. Boyle in 1896. It had plainly been dis- 

 turbed by some one in former years. But, at a depth of two and one-half 

 feet I found almost one hundred stone boulders, many of which were very 

 large. Most of these were limestone, and the remaining were gneissoid. 

 The entire heap was seven feet across and extended from a little more 

 than two feet to four and one-half feet below the surface. Beneath these 

 stones were found only a few broken human bones and one small fragment 

 of pottery. The bones included vertebrae, ribs, parts of the maxillae and 

 crania of both an adult and a youth, a patella, bones of the leg and of the 

 foot. There were a dozen or more shells of the fresh-water mussel (Unio), 

 most of which were entire. Broken bones of deer were found also, as well 

 as part of an incisor tooth of a beaver. Small pieces of charcoal occurred 

 at a depth of four feet. 



Although it is possible that many of the burials may have been 

 secondary, no evidence of secondary burial was observed in any of these 

 four excavations. The usual evidence was not there. Nor was there any 

 evidence of intrusive burial noticed. 



