30 GEOMETRICAL EARTHWORKS OF OHIO. 
drawn up and head crouched down upon the ribs as though originally 
placed in a sitting posture. All except Nos. 10 and 11 had the arms 
and hands placed at the sides. The right arm of skeleton No. 10 lay 
bent across the stomach. The right arm of skeleton No. 11 was bent 
so that the hands touched the chin. From both jaws of this latter 
skeleton all the teeth had been extracted before interment. 
With skeleton No. 1 a bone implement was found at the back of the 
cranium, and an incised shell and fragments of a jar at the right side of 
it. With skeleton No. 2, which was that of a child about ten years old, 
a small clay vessel was found 5 inches behind the cranium. At the 
left hand of skeleton No. 3 wasa shellsuch as is found among the sands 
of Paint Creek. A bone implement was at the back of the cranium of 
No. 4. With skeleton No. 7 were found a lot of small semi-perforated 
shell beads and two bone implements directly back of the cranium. By 
the right side of the cranium were the perfect skull and jaws of.a wolf, 
and beneath this were two perforated ornaments of shell. In the right 
hand was a shell, such as is found in the creek near by, while in the 
jeft was a pipe fashioned from stone. 
At the right of the feet of this skeleton was the extremity of an ob- 
long ash pit, about 4 feet long and 2 feet broad, and 1 foot 10 inches in 
depth. It was filled with white ashes which were evidently those of 
heman bones since none but human bones could be identified. In these 
ashes and compactly filled with them was an earthen pot. It lay at the 
right of the feet of skeleton No. 7. It was lifted out of the ashes with 
great care, but the weight of its contents and its rotten condition caused 
it to break in pieces before it could be replaced upon the ground. Nu- 
merous other pieces of pottery of a similar character were found in 
these ashes, and it is not improbable, from the indications, that all these 
ashes were originally placed in pots before interment. A perforated 
shell dish two inches in diameter and a lump of soggy sycamore wood 
were gathered from the ashes. Neither wood nor shell bore any signs 
of having been burnt. These ashes could not have been buried intru- 
sively since the sand layer above them was undisturbed. 
Skeleton No. 9 lay 7 feet deep and a half foot below the general 
burnt streak. It was originally covered with a wooden structure of 
some kind, for the cores of two red cedar timbers were resting lengtb- 
wise upon the body, and the burnt remains of probably two others 
could be plainly seen on each side placed parallel to those upon the 
body. This red cedar was still sound, but the white wood which envel- 
opes the red cores seemed to be entirely in a charcoal condition. The 
indications are that these timbers were originally 1 foot above the body, 
for the earth to that extent over the whole length of the body was very 
soft. The timbers were noticed to extend slightly beyond the head 
and feet, while the head upon which they lay was upon its right side. 
The earth above them was a mixture of clay and fine sand, and pecu- 
liarly moist. The length of this skeleton to ankle bones was 6 feet 
