FOWKE] ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI 55 
builders from the inception to the close of their labors. The first 
is perhaps unnecessary but it will assist the reader to realize the 
perplexities which sometimes embarrass an investigator. 
After carefully viewing the mound from every direction, the bot- 
tom was conjectured to be on a plane which would give the structure 
a diameter of about 50 feet, with a height of 8 feet. A trench deep 
enough to reach the yellow subsoil was started in at this level, on the 
north side. This sloped rapidly upward, and the discovery was soon 
made that the excavators were entirely outside of the mound, whose 
actual diameter proved to be not more than 25 feet, and its present 
summit only 4 feet above the base. Just within the real margin 
stones were reached extending in a fairly straight line east and west. 
At each end this row of stones turned, extending to an irregular heap 
along the south side. When fully disclosed all around, these stones 
seemed to be the bracers or outer portion of an interior vault. Meas- 
ured across the center, the space covered by them was 22 feet north 
and south by 21 feet east and west, the sides being straight and the 
corners rounded. Measured between the points where the outer edges 
would have intersected, if carried on in straight lines, the length of 
each side was as follows: North, 21 feet; west, 21 feet; south, 19 feet; 
east, 22 feet. Seeming discrepancies in these figures are due to un- 
equal projéctions of stones roughly laid up. On the west side, where 
the wall was highest, the distance from top to bottom was 2 feet 4 
inches. 
On the south and west sides the stones were in a compact mass, 
like a single rough, heavy wall; on the east and north sides was an 
inner wall of stones separated by a space from an outer wall which 
consisted of only a single row of rocks. This outer wall joined the 
‘rough, heavy wall’’ at the northwest corner. On the north side, 
near the east corner, the distance between the inner and outer walls 
measured 7 feet; but within the space there were other stones which 
seemed to belong to a grave made against the inner division of the 
wall, and separated from the outer part by about 4 feet of earth. 
These features can be made out in plate 8,a@. The camera had to be 
set very close. 
When cleared off, this grave, for such it proved to be, was outlined 
on the north side and on both ends by slabs placed edge-up and in- 
clined outward, the south side being formed, apparently, by the 
inner wall, as represented in plate 8, b. The inside measurements 
on the bottom were 6 feet 7 inches by 1 foot 11 inches. In the grave 
was a skeleton 5 feet 8 inches long, which lay extended on the back 
with the head toward the east, and the feet crossed—the last-men- 
tioned feature being unusual. The remains rested on flat rocks 
laid on earth that was somewhat mixed, and about at the natural level; 
other slabs were placed over the body. 
