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the head toward the south. At one point, not accompanied by 
bones, was a piece of columella 
At the center was a grave pit 8 inches deep, irregular in outline, 
and 4 to 5 feet in diameter. Fragments of bones found in it indi- 
cated bunched or bundled skeletons. The presence of a number of 
teeth of infants and children and of adults up to a considerable age, 
denoted at least six individuals. In several instances only the crowns 
or scraps of enamel were remaining, there being no trace of bone near 
them. Yet, lying on the bottom of the grave was part of a humerus 
so solid it could not be broken with the hands—another example, like 
that of the skeleton in Dawson mound no. 13, of the danger of 
attempting to fix even the relative date of a burial by the condition 
of the bones. 
Near the bottom, 6 feet north of the center, a pot was found in an 
upright position. A foot north of it, at same level, was a round- 
bottomed pot of less than a gill capacity, which fell to pieces; by the 
latter were part of a jaw and some teeth 
of a young child. A foot north of the sec- 
ond pot was still another, similar to the 
first, lying on its side, crushed by pressure. 
No doubt these pots and nearly all others 
found under similar conditions were origi- 
nally placed with bodies of which every 
trace had disappeared. 
Near the north end of the structure, a 
foot below the top, was a folded adult 
skeleton. The skull lay on the right side, e.12. Pipe from Easley mound 
but the femora were nearly upright, extend- yh 
ing almost to the sod line, as if the body had been placed on the 
back with the legs drawn up. Rocks were piled over the frame. 
The sockets in the right half of the lower jaw were entirely closed. 
A foot from the skull, toward the northeast, and probably belonging 
with it, was the clay pipe shown in figure 12. 
Immediately under this body was a skull, lying on the right side, 
with the face toward the east; the lower jaw was in its normal posi- 
tion; the teeth were much worn and decayed. No other bones were 
found except parts of three cervical vertebra; under the head were a 
few small disk-shaped shell beads. Some rocks lay over the head. 
Many skeletal remains were found thus partially protected, though 
some had only one stone, or at most a very few, as if for markers, 
none of them weighing more than 20 pounds, and few of them more 
than half as much. 
Near the northeast margin of the mound, with the head toward the 
east, lay the bundled skeleton of a youth whose wisdom teeth were 
not worn in the least, though the adjacent molars were. Two feet 
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