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2 feet 4 inches wide at bottom and 2 feet 7 inches at top; the sides 
were somewhat irregular, as if laid up hastily or carelessly, but the 
stones were much disturbed, so the vault may not have been in the 
same condition as when built. 
At the bottom of the vault, in a shallow, irregular depression about 
2 by 4 feet, having its greatest length from north to south, were small 
fragments of partially cremated bones of an adult and also of a child 
5 or 6 years old, scattered about over the surface as if carelessly 
thrown in, though it is quite possible their condition was due to 
former excavating. 
Beneath these bones was a grave reaching from the east to the 
west walls, 2 feet wide. In this, extending its full length, lay four 
thin slabs 2 feet below the bottom of the wall; a similar slab at the 
west end stood nearly upright, its surface in line with the inner face 
of the vault. These rocks were not on the bottom of the grave, but 
4 inches above it, that amount of earth having been filled in before 
the stones were placed. No remains were found in the grave either 
above or below the pavement except here and there a fragment of 
burned bone too small to identify. 
After the burials were made and the vault was filled, the doorway 
was closed by means of earth and stones thrown in promiscuously, as 
shown in the illustration. 
Stones around the outside of the vault covered a space 18 feet 
north and south by 15 feet 4 inches east and west. The vault wall 
was apparently upheld entirely around its lower part by earth upon 
which the stones were placed; but as none were removed except 
from the doorway, this is only a surmise. 
All the walls were well laid up. The inside of the doorway, the 
south wall, and the two southern corners are shown in plate 12,c. 
The west and north walls and the northwest corner were equally dis- 
tinct. It will be observed from the last figure that the corners are 
abutting and not interlocking, and that only occasionally are stones 
so placed as to break joints; even when they do so the construction 
may not be the result of design. The south wall abutted on the ad- 
joining walls at each end; the north wall against the east wall; the 
west wall against the north wall. It appears, therefore, that the 
walls were erected in this order: East, north, west, while the south 
wall may have been either the first or the last laid up. 
THE BRENNER MouNDS 
Mr. Brenner’s farm lies next to Mr. Keller’s on the west, and in- 
cludes the terminal portion of the ridge, which slopes toward the 
river on one side and toward Line creek on the other. Along the 
crest are seven mounds, all of which were explored by Prof. G. C. 
Broadhead ‘‘in the summer of 1878, in company with members of the 
