﻿64 CATALOGUE OF PREHISTORIC WORKS. 



Mounds oil the bluffs along the west side of the Illinois Eiver, below 

 Pearl Depot. Copper and stone implements, shell beads, pottery, and 

 bone needles found. 



Described by Braineril Mitchell, 8ni. Rep., 1879, pp. :i67, 368. 

 Mounds containiug stone graves, near the Illinois River, on Bee 

 Creek. Explored by the owner. Stone axes, a copper kettle and 

 nicely fitting cover wrapped in a fabric of some kind, implements and 

 ornaments of stone and copper. 



Other mounds in the vicinity explored by William McAdams. 



Noticed in the Evening Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), June 21, 1886. 

 Reported in Am. Antiq., vol. 9 (1887), p. 393. 



Pope County. 



Burial cave near Golconda, on the Ohio Eiver. 



Mentioned and skull taken therefrom figured by Morton, "Crania Americana," 

 p. 234. (Probably the cavern known as "Cave in Rock," in Hardin 

 County.) 



Stone and earth embankment, known as the "Stone Fort." 



Brief mention by T. M. Perrine, Sm. Rep., 1872, p. 419. (There is an ancient 

 stone wall in Jackson County, also known as the "Stone Fort.") 



Putnam County. 



Mounds and earthworks near Clear Creek, south of Hennepin. 



Noticed by H. K. Smith, Sm. Rep., 1S79, p. 437. 



Pulaski County. 

 Mounds at Wetaug. 



Reported by L. H. Thing. 

 Mounds at Ullin. 



Reported by F. S. Earle. 



Ancient fortress on a slope to the Ohio River, near Caledonia, con- 

 tains several acres; has no ditch. 



John Reynolds, Hist. 111. (ed. 1879), pp. 147, 148. 

 Mounds on Cache bottom. 



Reported by Mr. L. H. Thing. 



Randolph County. 



Mounds near Coulterville. 



Mentioned by J. L. Ong, Sm. Rep., 1879, p. 436. 



Stone graves, about 8 miles west of Sparta. 



Stone graves, 2 miles below the St. Louis and Chicago Railroad bridge 

 over Kaskaskia River, on William Coce's place, also one mile above the 

 bridge across Dry Luke. 



Stone graves, 3 miles wsouth of Baldwin, on the Widow Boyd's farm. 



Camping place, 8 miles west of Sparta. 

 Reported by James D. Middleton. 



Group of eight mounds on tlie Wiley estate, T. 5 S., R. 5 W., a mile 

 south of Eden. 



The " Wilson Mounds," 1^ miles southwest of Eden. 



Mounds at Rockwood. Explored. 



