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and 2 feet deep. The earth filling this grave was muddy, yet, 
with the exception of the skull, which was crushed flat, the skeleton 
therein was better preserved than any other found in this work. It 
lay extended on its back, with the head toward the west; the hands 
were crossed on the pelvis. This skeleton was 5 feet 7 or 8 inches 
long. 
Lying on the south bank of the last grave, near its west end, were 
two small flat rocks. Under the west one were fragments of bones 
too much decayed to identify. Under the east one lay a piece of 
scraper or small digging tool. 
It is quite probable these three graves were intended to be at the 
center of the mound; either the apex was carried too far to the east 
in constructing it, or erosion had somewhat altered its form. 
Distant 15 feet northeast of the center, a foot below the natural 
surface, on the yellow clayey subsoil, was a skeleton 5 feet 9 inches 
long, extended on its back, with the head toward the southeast, and 
the face turned to the right. The right half of the lower jaw and all 
of the upper jaw lay on a line where the sternum should have been, 
the latter having entirely disappeared. The bone above the right 
orbit showed signs of having been gnawed, so the displacement was 
undoubtedly caused by mice. The bones of the feet were solid, as 
were those of the legs except at their ends, the cellular portions being 
mostly decayed. The portion of the pelvis remaining was soft. There 
were no vertebre; the clavicles were partially preserved; the skull 
was filled with earth and partially destroyed. Apart from the jaws, 
such bones as remained were in their proper order, except the right 
tibia, which lay outside the fibula, with its front downward. It was 
the only entire bone found except some from the feet. The tibie 
were much flattened. 
At a distance of 5 feet east of the center was a grave dug to the sub- 
soil, having thin flat rocks laid on the bottom and stood on edge along 
each side but not at the ends. On the floor were bones of an infant, 
the head toward the east; teeth were still within the bone; the clavi- 
cle was less than 2 inches long. Flat rocks lay over the body. A few 
inches above its head were fragments of a pot of about a pint capacity, 
which lay beside the skull of an adult whose body was extended 
toward the east, and whose feet were near the head of the skeleton 
with displaced jaws. 
Near the east margin, 18 inches above the bottom, under flat stones, 
was an adult skeleton, on its back; the teeth were much worn. South 
of this, on the bottom, rested the skeleton of a child of 2 or 3 years, 
with small flat stones above the head; south of this, again, another 
adult skeleton, and west of the last, 2 feet higher, that of a young 
child, All these skeletons lay with their heads toward the south. 
