FOWKE] ANTIQUITIES OF MISSOURI 89 
Near the center of the space where surface signs were most abun- 
dant, about 18 inches deep, were pieces of a large pot, bones of a 
young deer in small fragments, and a pile of ashes. It looked as if a 
pot while in use had broken on or over a fire bed, and the whole mass 
had been raked up and thrown out together. 
Among other things found was a small thin piece of catlinite, 
highly polished, apparently a fragment of a disk pipe. 
Distant 15 feet from the center, the most northerly of the three 
trenches entered a pit 4 feet in diameter and 24 feet deep. This was 
evidently a refuse or trash receptacle, as it was filled with ashes and 
earth, among which were fragments of bone and pottery, flint chips, 
and unfinished or broken implements of flint and other stone. In this 
débris was one human femur. 
In the second, or middle, trench was a pit of the same character as 
that in the first, but much larger, and the deepest, probably, ever 
discovered. It was about 6 feet by 44 feet in diameter at the top, 
and, as first dug, 4 feet in diameter at the bottom, with a depth of 74 
feet. Toward the bottom, on the south side, were narrow steps like 
a steep stairway, in the solid earth, to enable the diggers to carry out 
the dirt. Afterward, a hole 3 feet in diameter was sunk 3 feet 
deeper on the east side, making the entire depth 104 feet. The pit 
was filled with earth and ashes, among which were as many frag- 
ments of bones, pottery, stones, and flint chips, as would fill a half- 
peck measure. Extending from the west edge of the pit, a few 
inches under the sod on a pile of ashes, were the solid leg and feet 
bones of an adult. As no other bones were present, it would seem: 
the burial antedated the pit, and the missing parts were thrown aside 
in the digging. 
In the line of the southern, or third, trench were two pits. The 
one first reached was 5 feet deep. From the north and west sides 
this was cleared out over an area 7 by 10 feet toward the east and 
south without reaching the margins in these directions. Near the 
top were the leg and feet bones of an adult, placed one above the 
other as if a body had been laid in on the right side, with the head 
toward the northwest. Below these were the corresponding bones 
of another adult, laid parallel as if belonging to a body placed on 
the back. In neither instance were there any traces of other bones 
belonging with them. 
The second pit in the third trench was several feet west of the 
first ; this was 6 feet in diameter and 4 feet in depth. The only human 
bone in it was the skull of a child of 5 or 6 years. Both jaws were 
missing and the skull lay with the vertex downward. 
Between these two pits were the pelvis, leg bones, and feet of a 
person about the size of a normal 16-year-old boy. 
