FOWKE] ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI 63 
MOUND NO. 3 
Mound no. 3 was one-fourth of a mile northwest of the first two 
mounds, at the end of the spur overlooking the river; it was 45 feet 
in diameter and from 4 to 6 feet in height, according to the side from 
which the measurement was taken. 
Near the surface on the western slope was part of a small pot 
thrown in with the earth. 
Distant 10 feet south of the center, 4 feet from the bottom, under a 
pavement of small flat stones were scraps of bone of a half-grown 
person. 
Beneath the apex was a grave 2 feet 10 inches deep, having the fol- 
lowing dimensions at top and bottom, respectively: 8 feet 3 inches 
and 7 feet 2 inches long; 3 feet 2 inches and 2 feet 4 inches wide at the 
east end; 3 feet 9 inches and 2 feet 4 inches wide at the west end. 
Lying extended on the bottom, with traces of wood and bark above 
and below it, was a skeleton, with the head toward the west, whose 
bones, though more solid in a few parts than any other bones yet 
found, were much decayed in, or wholly absent from, other parts. 
Beside the left knee were nine thin, slender, arrow-heads from five- 
eighths to nine-eighths of an inch long; judging from their position 
they had evidently been in a quiver. Beside the left side of the skull 
and at the neck were five pieces of columellas from 2? to 31 inches 
long, drilled lengthwise; also six cylindrical shell beads, which fell to 
pieces. The teeth were very little worn; one wisdom tooth had not 
grown level with the next molar, and another could not be found, 
though the shallow socket showed it had existed. 
THE KURTZ MOUND, IN HOWARD COUNTY (13) 
Numerous mounds, some of them 15 feet in height, exist in the 
southwestern part of Boone county and in the adjacent part of 
Howard county. In most of those which have been opened by 
farmers and relic hunters, limestone or sandstone rocks from the sur- 
face and ravines near by are found in quantities. From the accounts 
given it would appear that cist graves or vaults have been found in 
some of the mounds, and many skeletons have been exhumed. The 
contents seem to have been but limited in quantity and commonplace 
in character. 
On the farm of Mr. Strother Kurtz, a mile northwest of Lloyd’s 
station, which is 35 miles west of Rocheport, are six mounds ranging 
in height from 2 to 12 feet. 
In one of these, 11 feet high and 60 feet in diameter, the central 
portion was cleared out over an area averaging 24 feet in diameter. 
Nothing was found in the body of the structure except earth and 
about four wagon-loads of stone promiscuously thrown in with it. 
