FOWKE] ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI . ral 
earth containing many rocks torn from the walls. Removal of this 
débris disclosed a vault 8 feet 4 inches east and west by 8 feet north 
and south. The west and north walls had been partially demolished, 
the former having been pushed inward at the middle by a tree which 
had grown on it; the east wall was intact. The greatest height of 
the wall was 3 feet. The walls abutted at the corners. 
The doorway on the eastern side measured 2 feet 7 inches wide at 
bottom. Access to it was between two wing walls, extending east- 
ward for a distance of 6 feet 6 inches from the inner face of the vault, 
while bracer stones, roughly laid, extended 3 feet farther in the same 
direction. Neither wing wall was laid up smoothly or regularly. 
On the south side, the width from the inner face of the vault to 
the outer margin of the brace rocks was 6 feet. The other sides were 
not cleared off; but these measurements indicate for the entire area 
covered by stones a space about 20 feet north and south by 24 feet 
east and west, the excess of the latter dimension over the former 
being due to the extension of the wing walls on each side of the en- 
trance. 
In plate 13 are shown the east wall and doorway, inside. 
There is no mention in Professor Broadhead’s report of the fifth 
mound opened by him. His ‘‘ No. 6”’ must have been the last or most 
western of the group, as the sixth in order had a well-defined doorway ; 
it is here described as— 
MOUND NO. 2 
This mound stood on a northward-sloping surface. It measured 
45 feet in diameter and 5 feet in height. One inside corner of the 
vault was visible, the stones apparently not having been displaced. 
When the débris was thrown out it was evident that only the east 
and west walls, including a corner of the doorway, were injured. 
The other walls were in practically their original condition, only a 
few stones along the top being somewhat out of position. Across 
the center the vault measured 8 feet each way; the sides followed 
nearly cardinal lines, though not parallel, the east and west walls 
showing more divergence than the other two. Each wall in succes- 
sion was measured at top and bottom, the results being: North wall, 
8 feet 6 inches and 7 feet 11 inches, respectively; west wall, 8 feet 7 
inches and 7 feet 4 inches; south wall, 7 feet 5 inches and 7 feet 7 
inches; east wall, 8 feet and 7 feet 10 inches. These dimensions 
show there was considerable outward slope to the south and east 
walls while the other two were perpendicular. 
The highest vertical measure of any face—the same on north and 
west sides—was 3 feet 8 inches. 
The walls in this structure were laid up more accurately than in 
any other examined. 
