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of the two vaults, with their dimensions in feet marked thereon. They appear to have 
been originally built with a step on the outer face, as shown at B. The outer portion 
of the wall lies partly tumbled as if pulled down. Other similar burial places have 
existed in the county, but at present their sites only remain, the stones having been 
used for building purposes. 
The sketch mentioned is reproduced here as figure 16. 
Evidently Professor Broadhead regarded the two vaults as con- 
stituting a single burial place. The open space to the left, marked 
“rocks removed,” is clearly a doorway. Reference to the various 
illustrations herein will show that in any of the vaults with brace 
rocks piled against the outside “the outer portion of the wall lies 
partly tumbled as if pulled down.” 
He says further (p. 352): 
In Montgomery county, on the bluffs of Prairie Fork, near its mouth, in the south- 
east quarter of section 9, township 47, range 6 west, there are remains of a similar 
walled burial place to that on Salt river. Pike county. The walled space is ten feet 
ft 
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LU. Wom. LO Wit. 
Fig. 16. Broadhead’s plan of two vaults in Pike county. 
square, and the walls were two feet high when I saw them in 1859. A few pieces of 
human bones were found. 
And again, on the same page, in regard to certain mounds in 
Johnson county: 
These I have not seen. They are located on the bluffs of Blackwater river, and are 
described as being very similar to those of Clay county, but of larger dimensions, 
with vaults built of stone, and having lids of the same kind of material, the whole 
covered over with earth so as to present the contour of large rounded mounds. Some 
pottery and flint implements have been obtained from them. 
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The reference to ‘‘lids’’ is obscure. Possibly it means that flat 
stones were used to cover the vault after it was filled. 
Mounps IN VICINITY OF WARRENSBURG (15) 
No doubt the last-named mounds are those referred to by C. W. 
Stevenson” under the head of ‘‘ New Mound Discoveries,’’ in substance 
as follows: 
aIn the Kansas City Review of Sciences and Industry, 11, 106, 1878-9. 
