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As soon as the uppermost stones were removed, pieces of skulls 
and other bones appeared; these were found among the rocks to the 
bottom of the mound and 6 inches in the earth beneath. Most of 
the remains were in the southwest quarter of the cairn. Not a 
whole bone was discovered except one clavicle of a child, which lay 
in soft earth fully a foot from any other bone; nearly all the bones 
apparently were in small fragments when put here. Appearances 
indicated that a number of graves had been cleared out and their 
contents, bones and earth together, brought here and _ scattered 
promiscuously to a depth of 6 inches before any stones had been 
placed. From this stage to the completion of the structure stones 
had been thrown in along with the subsequent burials. 
All ages were represented in the burials; there were fragments of 
infants’ jaws with the teeth not through the bone; teeth worn to the 
roots; and jaws from which teeth were missing and sockets closed up. 
Bones from every part of the body lay in contact, those from old and 
young together, in many cases crushed between flat stones which 
were in so close contact that no earth had made its way in between 
them. One body, that of an infant, had evidently been buried soon 
after death; the few bones remaining were in proper position, and 
small disk-shaped shell beads lay near the head. <A few flints were 
scattered here and there. 
Probably this spot, which commands an extensive outlook toward 
every point of the horizon, is the site of a communal burial, containing 
the remains of all who had died during a period of several years. 
After having been buried elsewhere in the earth, or in some cases 
perhaps alter having been kept on scaffolds or shout the houses, all 
the remains were finally collected and interred here. 
THE BAUMHOEFER Mounps (11) 
Two miles directly south of Easley, on the farm of Mr. Fred Baum- 
hoefer, is a cultivated ridge running west to a precipice bordering 
the Missouri bottoms and sloping steeply to each side. On the 
crest were two mounds, having many stones on the surface. 
MOUND NO. 1 
The mound nearer the end of the ridge was opened first. This 
stands on a point commanding an extensive outlook, hills 20 miles 
away being in plain view. 
There was so much in the construction of this mound that was 
difficult to understand, so many features whose interpretation was 
uncertain until the work was completed, that two statements will 
be submitted with respect thereto: First, a full transcript of the 
field notes; second, a description of the methods employed by the 
