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Mounds AND Bcrial Grounds of Bartholomew County. Indiana. 

 J. J. Edwards, M. D. 



It has repeatedly been stated that there are uo artificial eariliworks 

 or mounds within the coiinty which may be ascribed to a prehistoric race. 

 After investigation and numerous inquiries we sum up the data thus ob- 

 tained and offer it for what it is worth to the student of archaeology: 



1. A circular mound sixty feet in diameter and about three feet high^ 



but by cultivation now almost level with the surface of the field, 

 is situated on the farm of Henry Blessing, in Wayne township,, 

 section 1, township 8, north, range 5 east. Some years ago it was 

 explored and five skeletons were found, besides numerous stone 

 implements. Many articles of stone, together with fragments of 

 bones, have since been obtained. A man named Sam. Clark found 

 an entire skull, which he used as a "drinking gourd." This mound 

 is one and a half miles northeast of Wailesboro. 



2. There is a small circulat mound on the Lloyd Moulridge farm, two> 



miles west of Cox's Crossing, in Columbus township, in section 34,. 

 township 9, north, range 5 east. Mr. Oscar Lowe informs me that 

 several skeletons and relics have been unearthed here. It has not 

 been systematically explored. 



3. There is a small circular mound just north of the .Tackson and Bar- 



tholomew county line and south of the farm of Eli Marquette. It 

 is situated in a strip of woodland east of the highway which runs 

 southeast from Jonesville. and is in section 16, township 7, norths 

 range B, east. I do not know if it has been explored. 



4. While opening the Wailesboro railroad gravel pit a large skeleton was 



exhumed. Beside him were buried several relics of stone, among 

 which was a beautiful gorget of polished striped slate, now in my 

 possession. It is different from, but more neai'ly resembles, the 

 gorget figured as 130, page 118, of the thirteenth annual report of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, D. C, 1891-92, published 

 1896,) than any I have seen figured. 



5. In 1901, on opening a gravel pit just north of Wailesboro. in section 12,. 



in the angle formed by the pike and railroad and north of the 

 crossing, a human skeleton was unearthed, but no relics were 

 obtained. This was about one hundred yards north of the place 

 where the large skeleton above referred to was exhumed. 



