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its looseness, without disturbing the wall of the grave. Only a few 

 fragments of bones were discovered in these empty graves. 



Burial 3. Discovered at 34 feet on the west side of trench i, 26 

 inches down. Skeleton was that of an infant 8 or 9 years old. The 

 skull was crushed. The body lay in a grave outlined by a row of 

 flat stones placed upright on edge. Orientation: head, east-south- 

 east ; face north-northwest ; right side, flexed. Body lay east-south- 

 east by north-northwest. From top of head to end of toes 2 feet 

 3 inches. Black substance in grave. Ash pit south of skull at 18 

 inches. Grave soil much disturbed. 



Burial 4 was found at 33 feet on the east side of the trench. The 

 depth was 25 inches and the grave outline 60 by 35 inches. A 

 decayed male skeleton lying in the usual flexed position. Orienta- 

 tion : head, south-southeast ; face west-southwest, left side. The 

 skeleton as it lay measured 36 inches from top of head to heel and 

 15 inches from knee to back. The superincumbent grave soil was 

 much disturbed. An ash pit 2^2 feet in diameter and I foot deep 

 was found just south of the grave. 



Between graves 3 and 4 there was a streak of disturbed earth 30 

 inches deep, as if the entire ground had once been turned over to this 

 depth. There was a thin separating wall as if there had been two 

 other graves here. 



Burial 5. At 40 feet on the east side of trench i the tops of two 

 boulders were struck and a few inches north of them a heavy bed 

 of white ashes. Beneath the ash bed, n inches from the surface 

 of the ground, the tops of several skulls were touched. Careful 

 excavation revealed a small ossuary containing the remains of parts 

 of fourteen skeletons. 



The bones were placed in a rectangular heap measuring north- 

 east to southwest, 2 feet 4 inches, by northwest to southeast, i foot 

 8 inches. The large bones, femora, tibiae etc., lay northwest and 

 southeast. Six skulls were arranged around the top of the ossuary 

 and beneath them were four others, all broken. ' When the bones 

 were removed twenty-seven femora were found which would indi- 

 cate parts of fourteen individuals. The earth had packed about the 

 outer bones and had not fallen into the interstices of the bone heap 

 below. The area of the disturbed earth was, in diameter 4 feet 

 6 inches. The two boulders south of the ossuary had probably been 

 placed as hidden markers. Large stones had not been encountered 

 before in the sand of the knoll. 



Just beyond the ossuary to the south was a large ash pit 48 inches 



