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feet in diameter. Their construction consists of limestone and loam 
coverings. It was also noted that some of the rocks had been fired. 
On Blue Mont, north of Manhattan, Kans., a mound was opened 
that “contained skeletons, arrow-heads, beads, etc.” (Brower, 1898). 
It was composed of a layer of loam covered over with 2 feet of stones 
and ditt. 
A rock-covered tumulus was reported near the Nudson Village site 
which is located on the west side of the Big Blue River near Stock- 
dale, Kans. (Brower, 1899). The mound, situated on a high bluff, 
measured 3 feet in height and 45 feet in diameter. <A cross section 
revealed a fill of ashes and human bones cloaked by a layer of rock 
slabs. Evidence of a pit was not conclusive. 
A slab-covered mound is reportedly located on a bluff opposite the 
mouth of the Big Blue River (Brower, 1899). The fill contained 
human bones, “30 flint arrowpoints, one flint knife, fragments of a 
bone dagger, many shell and birdbone beads, one spearhead and one 
implement of catlinite” in a matrix of dirt and ashes. The top 
stratum was thick and composed of “stones covered with dirt.” 
A group of 12 mounds was investigated on the bluffs east of Walnut 
River near Arkansas City, Kans. (Gould, 1898). Two of the exca- 
vated mounds were circular, about 20 to 30 feet in diameter and 2 
to 5 feet in height. At 1 to 3 feet below the surface, fragments of 
charcoal were encountered, and ash and charcoal increased in intensity 
from 4 to 10 feet below the surface. The deeper areas contained 
“stone hammers and axes, a mortar for grinding grain, flattened stones 
for dressing skins, flint arrow-heads and axes and grooved stones, for 
apparently sharpening instruments, numerous flakes of flint, also 
two species of Unio” and a variety of animal bones. No whole 
vessels were located, but sherd fragments appear to be from a con- 
tainer “shaped like a deep tin wash-basin, probably 6 inches deep 
and 10 to 12 inches in diameter.” Pottery appendages were also 
recovered. 
In 1879 four mounds were opened on a high bluff overlooking the 
Republican River Valley about 3.5 miles northeast of Junction City, 
Kans. (Morehouse, 1928). The largest was about 30 feet in diameter 
and 4 feet in height. The others ranged from 12 to 20 feet in diameter. 
The mounds were arranged in a semicircle about 80 feet apart. They 
were built of “layers of stone and earth” and contained human re- 
mains, fragments of pottery, pipes, and flintwork lying on the original 
ground surface. 
Mound No. 2, at the Weeping Water site (25CC34), is located on 
the top of a bluff in Cass County, Nebr., about 130 miles northeast of 
the Lovewell Reservoir. It measured 48 feet in diameter and 2 feet 
in height (Strong, 1935). The mound was composed of a thin layer 
