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Parallel to these slabs, and on the same level, 2 feet farther north, 
lay on its back at full length an adult skeleton, with the head toward 
the east. About the center of the mound, a foot below the present 
top, were a number of stone slabs covering an area 14 by 4 feet; no 
remains of any kind were found under them. 
MOUND NO. 6 
Mound no. 6 stood 175 feet northwest of no. 5. It measured 
45 by 50 feet, the longest diameter extending from southeast to 
northwest, and 6 feet in height. <A trench 16 feet wide was started 
southwest of the center. Stones were soon encountered, extend- 
ing from the bottom to within a foot of the top. At first view these 
seemed to be piled at random, as part of the mound, but when all 
the earth above and around them had been removed, they were 
found to cover a space approximately rectangular, 17 feet north and 
south by 184 feet east and west, measured on the diameters. ‘The 
east margin was irregular, while the three other sides were nearly 
straight (curved slightly outward) and the corners rounded. 
About the center and toward the south margin were areas free 
from stones. The removal of the deposited earth from the first of 
these areas disclosed the interior of a vault or chamber made of slabs 
roughly laid up, as in a foundation or cellar wall, the bottom layer 
resting on the natural surface. The interior of this vault measured 
74 feet east and west by 44 feet north and south. The walls were as 
true and the corners as square as they could be made with undressed 
stones. The west, north, and east faces measured from 24 to 3 feet 
in height. The south face was much lower, being nowhere more than 
a foot high, in places consisting of only two layers of stone. The 
breadth of the wall on top was fairly uniform all around, varying but 
slightly either way from 2 feet. 
The open space on the south side measured 11 feet in length by 24 
feet in width; it was inclosed by a row of flat stones, which cir- 
cumscribed the main vault and were in contact with its walls on the 
west, north, and east sides. The width of this border was from 2 to 3 
feet, being greatest on the north; in some places only one stone was 
laid, in other places as many as four stones, one on another, but - 
nowhere to a depth of more than 8 or 9 inches, on a foundation of 
banked earth 18 inches high. 
At the middle of the vault was a single row of stones extending 3 
feet east and west by 14 feet north and south; between these and the 
north side were a few others which had been either loosely thrown in 
or had fallen from the wall. All these stones, except the ones lying 
farthest toward the east, rested on a mass of burned earth a foot thick 
which extended to the west end of the vault; the condition of this 
deposit was not due to a fire made here, the earth having been 
