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period of the Revolution, having some 

 large burnt stones, ashes, wood char- 

 coal, brick, broken rum bottles, a wine 

 glass nearly complete, a large open 

 clasp-knife with bone handle, a hoop- 

 iron pot-hook, various forged head 

 nails and a curious folding corkscrew. 

 Gold buttons of Revolutionary pattern 

 and an officer's silver button of the 

 Royal Marines, together with pewter 

 buttons of the 17th Regiment dis- 

 closed who had occupied the spot. 



"At one part of this fireplace, we 

 came upon a pocket of oyster shells, 

 evidently Indian, about two feet deep, 

 and on removing some of these, had 

 the good fortune to uncover a human 

 thigh-bone. We worked carefully 

 into the shells and under the pocket, 

 gradually disclosing the complete re- 

 mains of a full-grown man lying on its 

 right side, feet to the north, head 

 facing east, knees doubled up, the 

 left arm extended down through the 

 thighs. The feet had been within the 

 area of the hole in which the Revolu- 

 tionary fireplace had been made, and 

 only one or two foot bones were found. 

 At a later period other foot bones were 

 found on the opposite side of the Rev- 

 olutionary fireplace, evidently having 

 been displaced in its construction. 

 The right arm was flexed, and the 

 hand was under the head, the latter 

 was intact and every tooth was in 

 place. Shells had been packed over 

 the body, and some around it. We 

 were much puzzled by a number of 

 human bones lying compactly together 

 by the skeleton, in a position that 

 would have been in its lap, had it been 

 upright. 



"We removed the skull, covered 

 the remains, and on Sunday, March 

 29th, renewed the work. We went 



carefully to work upon the cluster of 

 mixed bones in front of the large skel- 

 eton, and soon found them to be rather 

 compactly arranged in a rectangular 

 form about 14 by 26 inches, the long 

 bones parallel. The vertebrae abrupt- 

 ly ended parallel with the head of the 

 larger skeleton, and after working some 

 time, we found a skull placed below, 

 beneath the pile of bones in a vertical 

 position, facing north, the lower jaw of 

 which was disengaged, and was placed 

 sideways in front of the face. The 

 back of the skull was broken in, and 

 was black with marks of burning. 

 The lower jaw was burned, and some 

 of the teeth split by fire. The arm 

 and leg bones were charred at the 

 joints. Inside the skull was a burned 

 toe bone. Some oyster shells were 

 among the charred remains. 



"A significant fact was that the 

 right arm bones of the large skeleton 

 were below the pile of burned bones. 

 This feature, and the compact arrange- 

 ment of the latter within the space 

 in front of and at the same level as the 

 large skeleton, seem to point strongly 

 towards an intentional arrangement 

 of these bones, in front of the large 

 corpse and to indicate the simultane- 

 ous burial of the two bodies. On ex- 

 amination, the large skeleton proved 

 to be that of an adult male, and the 

 dismembered remains those of a female 

 of about 35 years of age. No imple- 

 ments were found with the remains, 

 but a part of a stone pestle and a rude 

 celt lay under the sod among the oy- 

 sters above the large skeleton. 



"On Sunday, June 14, 1908, another 

 burial was found about 20 feet north 

 of the above. This burial consisted 

 of an adult skeleton doubled up and 

 its back much curved, and was appar- 



