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them were excavated and are numbered in the order in which they 
were opened, beginning at the point of the cliff. 
MOUND NO. 1 
This proved to be only a small heap of earth containing no remains 
whatever, yet it was plainly artificial. It was on land belonging to 
Mr. Abram Sapp. 
The remaining mounds were on land owned by Mr. W. G. Easley. 
MOUND NO. 2 
The second mound, 390 feet north 60° east of the first, was 11 
feet in height and 80 feet in diameter. 
Two narrow trenches—one from the west, one from the northwest— 
were carried in 10 feet and connected by a cross trench. In the latter 
were found several loose flat stones, not laid in contact or in any 
particular order. Beneath them, with some earth intervening, was 
an extended skeleton a foot above the bottom of mound. It lay 
on its back, with the head toward the south and the face toward 
the west; the right arm was straight by the side, the left arm across 
the waist. The bones were large and heavy, the front teeth con- 
siderably worn, and the molars ground down on the outer face 
almost to the roots. 
A foot east of this skeleton and 2 feet above it, or near the top 
of the mound, were fragments of an adult skeleton, the teeth of 
which were much worn. 
Distant 13 feet from the west margin, 3 feet above the original 
surface, were nine large limestone slabs covering a space 2 feet east 
and west by 54 feet north and south. These had evidently pro- 
tected a body, though no trace of bone could be found. 
Near the southeast corner of these stones, a foot lower, were bones 
of a child a few months old. The body had been placed on the 
back, with the head toward the south and the face toward the west. 
On the face lay a decayed mussel shell. 
Below the infant’s bones, its west edge being directly under and 
parallel with the east edge of the stones, was a grave extending a 
few inches into the natural earth. This contained portions of an 
adult frame having the arm and leg bones extended in their natural 
position and the feet toward the north, but there was no trace of 
vertebre or skull. The shafts of the leg bones were solid, though 
the ends fell away when they were lifted. The feet extended to the 
south end of another grave, 8 feet 9 inches long, 2 feet 6 inches wide, 
3 feet deep. On the bottom was a skeleton 6 feet long, lying extended 
on the back, with the head toward the south. Nearly all the bones, 
though quite heavy, were much decayed. The skull, which was 
