48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 37 
under and around it. Near the vertex was a clay pipe, shown in 
figure 10. 
At the center, 6 inches above bottom, was a sandstone pipe which 
had become so friable that it fell to pieces when the earth was removed 
from around it. North of the center 3 feet, 18 inches above the bot- 
tom, was a fragment of skull, 
near which lay the fragments 
of a pot of about a pint and 
a half capacity. When this 
was deposited it contained an 
unfinished pipe of soft rock, 
now almost disintegrated, 
shown in figure 11, a rough 
piece of hematite worked all 
over with the apparent inten- 
tion of shaping it into a cone 
or a hemisphere, and a few 
small flint chips. Close by the 
pot were two well wrought flint 
knives or spearheads and the point of another. Near this pot and 
flints were upper and lower teeth, much worn, all in natural order, 
with crowns in contact, as if still in the mouth of a living person; 
but there was no trace of jawbones or of any other part of a cranium. 
Close to these were an unfinished granite celt, and a thin flint knife 
7? inches long; these 
two objects undoubt- 
edly belonged to the 
same individual and 
were buried with 
him; yet the flint is 
a beautiful specimen 
of fine, delicate chip- 
ping, while the celt 
is crudely shaped and 
roughly pecked. 
There were evidently 
two burials, the piece 
of skull first found 
being fully 2 feet 
from the teeth; and 
all the articles mentioned may have belonged either with one or 
with both. 
In several other places around the central part of the mound were 
traces of burials, some indicated by small piles of rocks. Among 
them, a foot below the present top, was an extended skeleton with 
Fic. 10. Pipe from Easley mound no. 3. 
Fia. 11. Unfinished pipe from Easley mound no. 3. 
