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then being covered with earth to form the mound. No doorway or 
other opening, as found in vaults excavated later, existed in this 
instance, but the south wall was very low and probably the entire 
end was left open until the burials had been made. 
MOUND NO. 7 
Mound no. 7 stood at the end of the ridge, 85 feet north of no. 6; 
it was 22 by 30 feet, with the longer axis from north to south, and 4 
feet high. The presence of many stones scattered over its surface 
indicated an interior construction similar to that just described. 
Within this mound undisturbed stones covered an area 14 feet 
north and south by 144 feet east and west. A central inclosure 6 feet 
north and south by 9 feet east and west, in which no stones occurred, 
proved to be the vault. In this vault, a foot below the top of the 
mound, was a skull; nearly a foot lower, two skeletons, extended, 
with the heads toward the east, were uncovered, while at various 
points from 6 to 10 inches apart vertically, extending to the bottom, 
were fragments of nine more skulls and of many other bones. So 
large a proportion of the remains had entirely disappeared, and all the 
bones found were so decayed, that it was impossible to segregate the 
various parts of any particular skeleton or to determine whether 
certain bones belonged to one skeleton or to several. Each pile may 
have contained remains of more than one person. At one point, in 
the fourth layer from the top and a foot above the bottom, was the 
skeleton of a child of about 6 years of age, having the skull much 
decayed and most of the other bones missing; at'the neck were eleven 
beads, drilled lengthwise, made from the columella of a large sea- 
shell, ranging from slightly less than an inch to nearly an inch and a 
half in length. In five different places were small fragments of par- 
tially cremated human bones, including all parts of the frame. The 
remains of one infant had been cremated, the residue being laid 
together in a little pile; the deposit was about the color of wood 
ashes, as were a few of the other remains, but most of them resembled 
charcoal. 
One of these deposits was of special interest because of an apparent 
attempt to place the partially incinerated fragments in their proper 
relative positions on and in contact with another body, or perhaps a 
skeleton in which the cartilages still held the frame firmly together 
at the time of interment. The skeleton lay at full length, on the nat- 
ural surface, with the head toward the east. Fragments of the two 
crania were intermingled, as were other bones, down to and including 
those of the feet. The bones of one foot (except the toes) and a por- 
tion of the lower leg of the partially cremated skeleton, though 
burned black entirely through, were found in nearly their natural 
order, as if the flesh had baked or hardened in the fire sufficiently to 
