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of one. femur, while other fragments of leg bones lay just in front 
of the face. Loose in the earth, 6 inches north of the last described 
skull and the same distance above it, was a broken pot (fig. 1) having 
a capacity of about 14 pints; there was a hole in the bottom, appar- 
ently intentionally made. 
Fourteen feet from the assumed center of the mound, near the east 
side of the trench, pieces of a pot were discovered. Seven feet 
nearer the center and a foot above the bottom lay, as if thrown from 
a basket, a confused mass of skulls and of bones of the hips, legs, 
and arms from three or four bodies. There were no small bones 
among them. Nearly all these bones were fragmentary from the 
effects of decay and pressure, only a few of the long bones being 
entire and these very fragile. 
Two large trees had stood on the site of this mound before it was 
built, the holes left by the decay of their roots branching out through 
the soil. . 
Although the excavation was continued for 27 feet beyond the 
point last mentioned, or 45 feet in all, apart from the remains above 
described nothing but an occasional flint or chip, fragment of pottery, 
or scrap of decayed bone came to light. 
THe RvUEGGE VILLAGE SITE (2) 
Near Stolpe, on the right bank of the Gasconade, four miles above 
its mouth, is a village site located on the Ruegge farm. The owner 
pointed out various places, especially one stretch of about 50 yards 
along the top of a gentle slope, where ‘‘the ground is white with 
shells whenever we plow.’’ As the field was under cultivation, no 
excavations were made. 
A single lodge site on the river bank near the edge of this field was 
carefully examined. Fragments of pottery, flint chips, and mussel 
shells were unearthed in considerable quantities, but at no point 
did these extend to a depth greater than 4 or 5inches. Of the objects 
found, only one flint and a piece of hematite once used as a paint 
stone were worth preserving. 
THe Urrman Mowunp (3) 
A mile east of Gasconade, on Mr. George Uffman’s farm, on a point 
nearly 400 feet high, stood a mound of mingled rocks and earth 30 
feet in diameter and 3 feet in height. 
In the central part of the structure was a vault 8 feet 6 inches long 
and 5 feet 4 inches wide (inside measurements), built of sandstone 
slabs laid vertically to a height of about 30 inches. The main axis 
ran nearly northeast and southwest. Along the south side, on the 
original surface, was a pavement 6 feet in length by 2} feet in width, 
