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Kansas City Academy of Science and the Kansas State Academy of 
Science.” 
Of the three mounds farthest east, Professor Broadhead says in his 
report : 
* * * they seemed to be nicely rounded earth mounds, but digging into them 
each disclosed regularly built walls about three feet high, exactly at right angles to 
each other, and enclosing a space 7 feet 9 inches square. The walls were constructed 
of thin, even layers of limestone laid flat upon each other, and built up with a regular 
perpendicular face, in fact much more true to the line than many so-called masons 
would place them. The crypts appeared to have been built above ground. * * * 
In No. 3 several skulls and one good skeleton were found, 
together with fragments of others. With the exception of this 
one skeleton all seemed to have been buried in a sitting pos- - 
ture, or with knees bent, the hands close to or resting on the 
knees. * * * This vault had an entrance 3 feet wide 
opposite the eastern side, as represented in figure 9.0 
The vault in Mound No. 2 contained a large quantity of 
charcoal, with fragments of charred bones, and much of the 
clay was reddened by burning. This was evidently a crema- 
Fic.14. Broadhead’splan tion vault. 
of voult in erent The vault in Mound No. 1 is similar in shape and contents to 
ar eae that of No.2 * * *, The vaults in each of the mounds 1, 
2, and 3 had entrances or openings in the wall 3 feet wide, extending to the bottom 
obtheywall, *°*)* 
Mound No. 4, the largest, is about 5 feet high and 40 feet in diameter, and is built 
entirely of earth. 
Mound No. 6 was similar to 1 and 2, and contained a concealed vault 7 feet 9 inches 
square, but without an entrance. Eight human skulls were obtained from this vault, 
but no complete skeleton, although 
some bones were exhumed in a fair 
state of preservation. In digging into 
this vault a few flags of limestone were 
found a few inches below the surface. 
Eighteen inches below was another 
fragmentary roof of limestone, beneath 
which skulls and portions of vertebre were disclosed. The flagstones were not reg- 
ularly arranged nor quite close to each other, but only a few appear to have been 
placed above the bones, and then earth was heaped upon them. Some fragments of 
flagstones were also found in No. 2, perhaps the remains of a former roof. 
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Fig. 15. Broadhead’s section of Brenner mound no. 1. 
Of the mounds described by Professor Broadhead, two were 
examined. As stated, his ‘‘No. 3” reappears here as— 
MOUND NO. 1 
This mound was 38 feet in diameter and 4 feet in height, but, like 
all the others, had been originally higher. The stones of the walls, 
projecting here and there above the grass, could be traced in most 
of their circuit. The space inclosed by them was nearly filled with 
a Smithsonian Report for 1879, 352-354, Washington, 1880. 
b Reproduced here as figure 14. Professor Broadhead’s view of a section of the mound is reproduced 
here as figure 15. Mound no. 3 of Broadhead corresponds to mound no. 1 of the present writer. 
