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than the main vault, and was built for the purpose of inclosing the 
two cist graves which lay to the north of the latter. At the 
northeast corner the wall was 4 feet outside of the larger grave. In 
this space, as well as in the vault proper, no filling stones appeared. 
The entire area covered by the vault and by this single wall measured 
22 feet north and south by 21 feet east and west. The greatest 
height of the walls at any point was 28 inches. Finally, earth was 
piled over the whole structure to form a mound about 25 feet across. 
At the time of exploration this diameter was increased, and the 
height of the summit reduced to about four feet, though evidently 
somewhat greater originally. 
In the above description it is not intended to convey the idea that 
this work was carried on without interruption. Possibly years 
elapsed from the time of the first burial until the completion of the 
mound. 
MOUND NO. 2 
This was situated 240 feet south of east from the first. Its 
appearance (pl. 9, a) indicated an artificial structure 11 feet in height 
and 75 feet in diameter. A trench run in from the south side, begin- 
ning at a point 25 feet from the summit, at a level 9 feet lower, 
showed that the bottom ascended as in mound no. 1, though less 
sharply; material for building had been taken from the crest at each 
side, and the mound was erected on a slight natural knoll, so its 
actual elevation was but somewhat more than 6 feet. 
At a distance of 20 feet south of the center, on the yellow subsoil, 
were traces of an extended skeleton; within the next 4 feet were 
three other skeletons, two on the subsoil, one a few inches above it. 
These all lay east and west; the heads of two were toward the east, 
but of the others not enough remained to show how they were placed. 
Distant 9 feet south of the center, 4 feet below the present surface 
of the mound, were fragments of bones of an adult. A foot north of 
this, on same level, were the remains of another adult, and 2 feet still 
higher and directly above were small fragments of the skeletons of 
an adult and child. All of these rested on layers of flat stones with 
similar stones above them. 
At various other places in the south half of the mound, at all levels 
from the bottom nearly to the top, were parts of human frames, 
most of them no doubt the remains of bodies or skeletons interred, 
though some seemed to have been thrown in promiscuously as if 
gathered up with the earth from shallow graves outside. In one 
place a set of upper and lower teeth were found in normal contact in 
the earth; careful search failed to reveal a trace of the skeleton to 
which they belonged; even the roots of the teeth had disappeared. 
