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Raisbeck Site in southern Wisconsin (Eowe, 1956, passim). In 

 terms of their usual simplicity of construction, the Wisconsin mounds 

 suggest a possible relationship to those of the Coralville Reservoir. 

 The former are largely unstratified (ibid., p. 72) and with some 

 evidence of the removal of sod as a preliminary to construction. 

 In addition, occupational debris is present in the mound fill. It 

 should be emphasized, however, that as in northwestern Illinois, 

 there are many other traits not found in the Coralville sites. Most 

 important are subfloor pits, a complex, overlapping group of burial 

 patterns, and a greater range of pottery forms. On the basis of 

 listed traits (Bennett, 1945, tables 1 and 2; Rowe, 1956, pp. 75-76), 

 similarities between the sites of southern Wisconsin and northwestern 

 Illinois and those of the Coralville Reservoir are few and inconclu- 

 sive. In essence, the simple mound form and a related pottery are 

 all that are held in common. Ceramic decorative motifs appear to 

 be closer to those of Jo Daviess County than to those of southern 

 Wisconsin (see 13JH202). Conversely, the simple mound structures 

 suggest a closer tie to the latter area. This varying pattern of rela- 

 tionship may be illusory. As a cursory assessment, Bennett seems 

 to have differentiated Hopewell influences more sharply, hence the 

 seeming close relationship of the Iowa to the Jo Daviess ceramics; 

 what is being compared is more solidly a type or a ware than is the 

 case in southern Wisconsin. Rowe's pottery may include several 

 undifferentiated elements, thus accounting for the apparent lesser 

 similarity. 



THE ALT SITE (13JH5) 



When first recorded (Ward, 1904, pp. 14-15), the Alt Site con- 

 sisted of three conical mounds situated on the upland just west of 

 the Iowa River. Informants indicated to the Smithsonian field party 

 that recent cultivation had destroyed all of the original structures. 

 As a result, the area was not visited. 



SITE 13JH6 



This mound group (13JTI6) located in a schoolyard just west of 

 county road 153, originally consisted of seven low, conical structures 

 25 to 30 feet in diameter (ibid., pp. 8-10). In the autumn of 1956 

 only four mounds were visible. All were much disrupted by recent 

 digging. No excavation was attempted, nor were artifacts noted. 



SITE 13JH7 



Site 13JII7 consists of four conical mounds with the probable 

 addition of a single linear structure. The mounds, ranging from 

 25 to 30 feet in diameter, are oriented along a northwest-southeast 



