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The space cleared out in this mound had an average radius of 15 
feet around the center. A considerable area on the south and west 
sides was left undisturbed. Fragments of human bones were found 
throughout the part examined. Some of these may have been gath- 
ered up from old graves; but most of them probably marked where 
bodies or skeletons had been laid, all the other portions having disap- 
peared. Only those deposits which undoubtedly belonged to inter- 
ments are described above. 
MOUND NO. 3 
The third mound, 115 feet north of the second, was 44 feet high, 
with an elliptical base 30 by 55 feet, the longest line running north 
and south. Work was started at the south end. Almost in the 
beginning bones were found—at the west corner a bundled skeleton, 
at the east corner 6 skulls in contact. Of the latter 2 were those of. 
children, one of them quite young; the other 4 were crania of adults 
of various ages. 
The entire mound was removed except a narrow strip around the 
outside. Up to the very margin were piles of stones, only a few in 
each pile, most of them over fragmentary bones; in some places 
bones were found without such covering. 
A bundled skeleton, the teeth but slightly worn, was near the cen- 
ter line of the mound, 12 feet from the end and less than a foot 
below the top. With it was a portion of the shaft of a long bone, 
having a perforation near one end, which shows characteristic mark- 
ings of aboriginal flint and sandstone drilling and rubbing tools. The 
edges of the hole are somewhat worn by a cord or thong by means of 
which it was suspended. 
Under some stones near the east side of the mound, 10 feet from 
the end, were a few small fragments of bone and a much decayed 
piece of columella drilled lengthwise. Among these fragments was 
part of an upper jaw in which the crown of the wisdom tooth was 
below the level of the other tooth-crowns, and showed no trace of 
wear; the next molar was somewhat worn, while the next two were 
rubbed flat; these comprised all the teeth that remained. This 
example illustrates the difficulty or uncertainty of judging age by 
condition of the teeth. Had these teeth been found separately they 
would have been ascribed to individuals of widely differing ages.¢ 
On the original surface, 8 feet from the south end, were adult 
human bones in a pile, among which was a skull, crushed flat; here, 
also, were teeth of an infant and several shell beads. 
Near the west side, 15 feet from the end, a foot above the bottom, 
was a skull, much crushed, lying on its left side, with other bones 
a Even the first set, or ‘‘milk teeth,” of children in our own communities sometimes show flattening 
or chiseling from wear, 
