PYRAMIDAL MOUND, BAUM WORKS. ol 
and 1 inch. Two bone implements were found at its head, and at its 
right side near the head were two fragments of polished tubes and a 
hollow point of bone which bore unmistakable signs of having been shaped 
with a steel knife (see Fig. 5). These bone implements were found be- 
neath the right elbow of skeleton No.10. Skeleton No. 11 corresponded 
in level and conditions to skeleton No. 9. The timber, however, seemed 
to have nearly all decayed, since only a few small pieces of red cedar 
could be gathered, and scarcely any traces of black ashes could be seen. 
The earth, however, for about a foot above was very soft, and two tim- 
ber molds at this level were distinctly traceable, extending from the di- 
rection of the skeleton’s side toa foot and a half beyond its feet. Bones 
of deer and bear, stag antlers, nussel shells, and many fragments of 
coarse pottery were found in the west trench 94 feet Leyond the post 
molds. 
It will be observed, if reference is had to the figure, that Nos. 1, 2, 
D, and 7 are all upon the same sand layer as Nos. 4 and 6. Nos. 
Fic. 5. Bone from Pyramidal Mound. 
9, 11, and 12 also correspond in depth, but they did not, like the 
others, rest upon sand. Fragmentary human bones, disturbed by the 
plow, were found corresponding in depth to the topmost sand streaks 
shown in the diagram. Black walnut timber, measuring 4 feet and 5 
inches above the general burnt streak, was found in a decayed and 
soaked condition at the point indicated in the figure. One end bore 
the marks of having been burnt. The soil around it was mostly a moist 
dark loam mixed with patches of what has been above described as a 
grayish plastie lime. 
A foot and a half beneath the surface and a little to the southeast of 
the center, a curious double fire-bed or hearth was uncovered. It was 
about 5 feet in diameter. Uppermost was a layer of white ashes vary- 
ing from one to two inches in thickness. They were the ashes of burnt 
shell and bone, but no bone could be found sufficiently large to deter- 
mine whether or not it was human. Beneath this was burnt clay from 
4 to 5inches thick, resting upon a layer of sand, which at this point 
was between 2 and 3 inches deep. The surface of this sand was quite 
hard. Directly beneath it came another bed of ashes of equal thickness 
with the one above, and of like composition except that it contained a 
quantity of black wood ashes and several broken pieces of pottery. 
Below this appeared burnt clay again, from 4 to 6 inches deep, resting 
as before upon a thin layer of sand. 
A hearth somewhat similar to this, but lacking its double feature, lay 
almost directly beneath this last upon the general burnt streak that 
has been heretofore described. 
