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Removal of all loose rocks and earth showed that this grave did 
not rest directly against the inner wall, as first supposed, but against 
another grave similar in construction though much smaller, being 
only 10 by 29 inches on the bottom. This contained the bones of a 
child of seven or eight years. The two graves and a part of the wall, 
looking southwest, are shown in plate 8, c. 
Continued excavation revealed a burial vault filled with earth and 
constructed in the manner described below. One skeleton, a foot 
under the surface, with the head toward the west, was probably 
intrusive. 
The inclosing wall measured outside 14 feet east and west, and 10 
feet north and south. The north side was indented, the effect be- 
ing to give the structure a somewhat reniform outline; the 10-foot 
measurement was made to the actual limit, not to the point where 
a continuous line would bring it. Had the curve been uniform, the 
boundary would have formed a regular ellipse with a breadth of 12 
feet, extending to the middle of the child’s grave. The average 
height of the wall inside was 2 feet 2 inches, except at this indented 
portion, where it was not more than a foot; but the stones were so 
well laid, and so continuous at the bottom with those on each side as 
to show that there had not been a doorway or entrance here, but 
that the wall was built as a whole in its entire circuit. Afterward, 
the single row of stones was run to include both graves within the 
general system of burials of which the vault was the principal feature. 
Under the main wall, where the incurve began, on the north side, 
was the skeleton of a young child, lying on the natural surface, with 
the head toward the east. 
Beneath the smaller grave, outside, was another dug a foot into 
the subsoil. It was 7 feet 8 inches long east and west, 2 feet 4 inches 
wide, and contained the extended skeleton of an adult about 6 
feet long, which lay on the back with the head toward the east; the 
teeth were much worn. 
Within the vault was an excavation 8 feet east and west by 4 feet 
7 inches north and south. This had contained five bodies, at a 
depth of a foot in the subsoil. At the west end was an adult skull; 
at the east end there were three adult skulls, and the teeth of an infant. 
Enough traces of other bones were found to indicate that all the 
adult skeletons were extended on the back, two of them on the earth, 
two on small flat stones. Three skulls were turned to the left, one 
to the right. At the vertex of the best preserved skull to the east, 
as if worn in the hair, were a conch or similar sea-shell about an inch 
long and fragments of a larger one too much decayed for any portion 
to be secured. The back and the left side of this skull were crushed 
and decayed; a portion of it was saved, however, as was also a jaw 
