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straight. Fragmentsof bone were found here and thereon the bottom, 
but only a fragment of skull near the west end and two worn teeth near 
the center could be identified ashuman. Some of the bones seem to be 
those of a deer; there was also a piece of turtle or terrapin shell. 
Beside the skull were fragments of a pot. The east end and corner 
of this grave lay beneath the end of the wall; before being molested 
the vault had covered probably half of it. 
MOUND NO. 8 
This mound was 70 feet south of east from no. 7. It was 25 feet 
in diameter and 18 inches high. 
At the center was the east end of a grave dug into the hard sub- 
soil, in which was a decayed skull with a pot on each side. One of 
these pots, which stood upright, held its shape, although badly frac- 
tured; the other lay on its side, being crushed flat. In the bottom 
of the latter pot was carbonized matter, apparently vegetable, and 
the tooth of a deer. The grave extended west about 6 feet; here 
and there were traces of bone, including half the shaft of each femur. 
Southwest from the center 6 to 7 feet were fragments of bones, two 
skulls being represented; beside one of these were the small fragments 
of a pot. 
At the same distance to the east was the inner side of an area 3 
feet 4 inches north and south by 18 inches east and west, covered by 
six stones; these were somewhat below the natural level and had 
partially settled into a grave dug into the subsoil. In this grave, 
with the head toward the south, lay the skeleton of an infant whose 
first. teeth were not through.the bone and whose clavicle was only 
24 inches long.4 
MOUND NO. 9 
This mound was 50 feet approximately east from no. 8. It was 
35 by 45 feet, the longer axis extending south of east, and 3 feet 
high; the natural slope had been much altered by cultivation. 
On the natural surface, 6 feet east of the center, was, a skeleton 
about 5 feet 6 inches long, extended on its back, with the head 
toward the south; on the left side of the skull was a pot, standing 
upright, but broken into several pieces by pressure. An entire 
pot, also upright, was found 7 feet west of north from the center, 
at the bottom. 
At several points projecting rocks, apparently belonging to segre- 
gated graves, were distributed over an area 30 feet east and west, 
aIn many cases bones of very young children are found in a much better state of preservation than those 
ofadults. The skull of this infant, though not thicker than ordinary blotting paper, and much fractured 
and distorted by pressure of earth, was not crushed, and a larger proportion held together than is usual 
with heavier bones. While the deficiency of lime accounts for the plasticity, it would seem that this must 
result in a more rapid dissolution and disappearance of the animal matter. 
5780—Bull. 37—10—_3 
