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plane with these bones, lying 3 feet farther north. was a single frag- 
ment of al ong bone. 
MOUND NO. 2 
Mound no. 2, measuring 40 feet in diameter and 3 feet in height, 
-stood 70 feet north of mound no. 1. <A space 12 by 20 feet was 
cleared out around the center. A foot above the bottom, 6 feet 
southwest of the center, lay a skull. On the same level, a foot farther 
north, another skull was unearthed, while a foot higher, 4 feet west of 
the first, a third one came to light. To the north and west of these 
crania lay other bones. All were so soft as to be less coherent than 
the earth in which they were embedded; often only the color, or ash- 
like patches, remained. At the center a skull was found, and a foot 
to the south of it another one, both on the bottom. Accompanying 
the cranium last referred to was the crown of a molar, having cusps 
not at all worn; this was the only tooth found in the mound. 
MOUND NO. 3 
Mound no. 3, situated 80 feet north of no. 2, was 40 by 45 feet and 
5 feet high. Eight feet south of the center and 14 feet above the bot- 
tom a number of small flat rocks, laid in the same manner as a pave- 
ment, covered a space 1 by 2 feet. Beneath these, grayish-colored 
earth indicated a burial, probably that of an infant. Nothing else 
worthy of mention was found in the mound. 
MOUND NO. 4 
Mound no. 4, which stood 70 feet from no. 3, was 25 feet in diam- 
eter and 2 feet in height. A number of small flat rocks, which had 
been plowed up, lay on top. On the bottom lay an extended 
adult skeleton 5 feet 8 inches long, with the head toward the north; 
the feet lay just east of the center. The bones of this skeleton were 
so soft that they adhered to the earth when it was removed; all the 
teeth had disappeared. A foot above the bottom, beginning at the 
center and extending east and south, was a layer of limestone slabs 
occupying a space 18 by 60 inches; nothing was found under them. 
MOUND NO. 5 
Mound no. 5, 200 feet north of no. 4, measured 25 feet in diameter 
by 2 feet in height. From 6 to 8 feet south of the center, on the 
original surface, was a layer of stone slabs extending north of east by 
south of west 24 by 5 feet (pl. 2). These formed the cover of a grave 
from 16 to 20 inches deep, in which were remains of either one or 
two infants, including part of a jaw in which the teeth had not come 
through the bone. 
