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enough to walk through, but as the bordering stones were all out of 
line, the passage was no doubt more nearly adequate when made. 
The southwest and northeast corners of the vault were intact, as 
was the west corner of the doorway, where not disturbed by the 
plow. The outside and top of the wall on the west side are shown in . 
plate 12,a. 
Behind the stones forming the inner face was a backing of earth; the 
outer rocks were partly piled against this and partly laid on it. 
As in the first mound, the interior of the vault was so torn up 
that its method of construction could not even be guessed at. The 
walls showed marks of intense heat; small fragments of partially 
cremated bones were found; and there was half a cartload of earth, 
some of the pieces as large as a gallon bucket, burned hard as a 
brick. This condition could result from the cremation of a body 
incased in or covered with clay; such finds have been reported. 
But numerous smaller pieces, from the size of a pea to that of a hen’s 
egg, burned equally hard, and scattered here and there in deposited 
earth previously undisturbed and showing no marks of fire, must have 
been carried in from the outside in the process of building; and per- 
haps all of it was. However this may be, a great fire had been main- 
tained for a considerable time within the vault. 
Several pieces of siliceous iron.ore were found, the interior hard, 
the outside soft and rubbing off easily. Some of the stones were quite 
red where the ‘‘paint’’ had settled on them. This mayexplain the 
red coloring matter on ‘‘painted bones’ found elsewhere in this 
vicinity, the ocher, softened by the action of water and carried along 
by the same agent, having been deposited on the bones. 
The walls of this vault, while not now vertical, seem to have been 
laid up so, and afterward pushed in or out by pressure of earth and 
growing trees. The greatest height of any part was 23 feet. 
MOUND NO. 3 
Three hundred yards northwest of Mr. Keller’s house were three 
small mounds close together. No stones appeared around one of 
these; in another the defaced wails of a vault were visible. The 
third seemed not to have been disturbed to any serious extent; when 
excavated by the writer it was 40 feet in diameter and 2 feet in 
height. 
The central portion was first cleared out, when a vault was disclosed 
which measured 8 feet north and south by 6 feet 9 inches east and 
west, the walls following almost exactly cardinal lines. The stones 
were quite large, particularly on the north side where four of them 
made up the entire height of the wall (pl. 12,b). The greatest eleva- 
tion at any point was 26 inches, the least 21 inches; but some stones 
may have been plowed off the top. On the south side was a doorway 
