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had another set embedded in the bone. The effect of wear on the 
crowns was very unequal. 
Above the skulls was a mass of earth a foot thick, filled with bones 
lying in all positions, which apparently had been gathered up in 
baskets and thrown here at random. Among them were bones and 
teeth of a child 3 or 4 years old. 
Above this deposit was a foot of earth free from remains, and above 
this, again, a wagon load or more of earth, some portions of which 
showed no marks of heat, while other portions were burned to a 
brick-like hardness. This deposit covered a space 5 or 6 feet in 
diameter; it had no connection with the bones or with any other 
deposit, having been put in as a part of the structure. The earth had 
not packed firmly, coming out under the pick in large clods. 
At the center, 24 feet above the bottom, were three skulls close 
together. The teeth indicated various ages, some being much worn, 
others only slightly worn; one wis- 
dom tooth was not cut. There were 
also teeth of a child 7 or 8 years 
old, and of a very young infant. 
Under one of the skulls lay a pot, 
and fragments of a pot were near 
anotherskull. All about these skulls, 
though mostly toward the south and 
west, lay a mass of detached bones, 
seemingly thrown in with the earth, 
which covered a space 6 feet in di- 
ameter. At one place femora lay 
parallel, as if a body had been depos- 
ited there; and at another point a femur, a tibia, and part of a pelvis 
were in the proper positions; there were no other indications of ceremo- 
nies except those pertaining to loose-bone burial. No estimate could 
be made of the number of bodies represented, but there were certainly 
not fewer than twenty. Near the center, among the bones, were two 
pots in addition to those already mentioned. 
Kast of the center, on different levels, and 2 feet apart, were part 
of a lower jaw in which the wisdom tooth was not through the bone, 
and a small piece of a thin skull. Similar finds were made in several 
other parts of the mound. 
Southwest of the center a grave had been dug, not penetrating 
the subsoil at one end but sunk into it 5 or 6 inches at the other end, 
to make the bottom level. In this grave were traces of two skele- 
tons of medium length, having small bones, lying with the heads 
toward the northwest. At the foot of the grave were much-worn 
teeth; a little higher was part of a jaw with the last molar not at all 
Fic. 5. Pot from Shaw mound no. 6. 
