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Seven feet farther south were fragments of long bones, close to the 
top, which evidently had been disturbed by the plow, as they lay in 
all directions. Beneath these was a sacrum, other vertebre extending 
southward therefrom. Vertebre are usually the first bones to decay. 
The body had been laid on its left side, with the head toward the 
south; no trace of cranium or scapula was left. Close by were small 
fragments of pottery. 
At the bottom of the structure, 20 feet south of the center, was a 
hematite nodule which had been rubbed to procure paint material. 
MOUND NO. 4 
This was 110 feet south from no. 38. It was 65 by 35 feet, the 
longest diameter running north and south, and 4 feet high. 
Sixteen feet northwest of the center, just below the original sur- 
face, were five teeth of an adult and eight of a child, with a piece of 
seashell and a scrap of bone too small to identify. Eight feet 
north of the center, 6 inches below present top, were portions of skull 
and arm bones. Five feet west of north from the center, in a hole 
dug to the subsoil, lay a skull on its right side, the top to the south, 
with the left side crushed in. The cranium was of low type—the 
forehead flat and receding, the jaws extremely prognathous, the 
facial angle and cephalic index very small. 
South of this skull, with 6 inches of earth intervening, were parts 
of skulls and arm bones of two children, one of them not more than 
2 years old, and part of the skull of an adult. Teeth of all three 
were present. Seven feet west of the center, 20 inches above the 
bottom, were leg bones, in slivers, and pieces of teeth, of an adult. 
Six feet south of the center, just below the sod line, five small stones 
covered a space a foot in diameter. Under these were the bunched, 
much decayed, hip and leg bones of a small person. Twenty feet 
south of the center was the inner edge of a grave cover of nine stones 
(pl. 4) on a space 2 by 34 feet, the greater dimension being east and 
west. The inner ends of these had fallen from their original surface 
level into a grave 18 inches deep, with slanting sides. In the bottom 
of the grave were a few very soft fragments of skull and long bones. 
Twenty-eight teeth were large, solid, well preserved, and but slightly 
worn; two of the wisdom teeth were represented by the crowns only 
and the other two had not developed. 
MOUND NO. 5 
This was 130 feet east of south from no. 4. It was 78 feet long, 
extending nearly north and south, 34 feet wide, and 3 feet high. 
a Contrary to current belief, it is very unusual to find a full set of sound teeth in an aboriginal grave, 
even in the case of a comparatively youthful person. 
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