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Crittenden County. 



Stone graves on O'Neale's farm, 4 miles north of Shady Grove. 

 Burial cave, in which human bones have been found, on Little Piuey, 

 2 miles east of Shady Grove. 

 Reported by Gerard Fowke. 



Edmonson County, 



Burials in Mammoth Gave. Very full description of mummy and the 

 finding of the same, by an eyewitness. A reticule or knapsack, con- 

 taining head dresses, beads, needles of horn and bone, and various 

 other articles, found with the mummy. 



Collins's Hist. Ky. (1847), pp. '256, 257. 

 "Haunted Cave," a burial cave containing human bones. 



Mentioned by F. W. Putnam, 8th Hup. Peab. Mus., p. 48 (fails to give locality)- 



Fayette County. (See Woodford County.) 



On North Elkhorn a beautiful circus, a dromus, etc.; on South Elk- 

 horn, near Lexington, a polygon town, several squares, mounds, graves, 

 etc. Nine Indian skulls found in the ground. 



Ratinesqne's Cat. Annals Ky., p. 33. Brief mention in Anc. Mon., p. 36, figured 



(PL 14, No. 3) from Rafinesque's MS. Described in Collins's Hist. Ky. (1847), 



pp. 29.3-295. Measurements and description by Dr. Robert Peter, Sm. Rep., 



1871, pp. 420-423, and 1872, pp. 420, 421. 



An irregular inclosure, occupying a peninsula formed by the Elkhorn 



River at its junction with the Town Fork, 7 miles from Lexington. 



Mentioned and figured in Anc. Mon., p. 2ii, PI. 9, No. 3, and noticed by Squier. 

 Am. Jour. Sci. and Art., 2d ser., vol. 8 (1849), p. 2. (Both from Rafinesqne's 

 MS.) 

 Works near Lexington and near South Elkhorn, inclosures, mounds, 

 and graves. 



Rafinesqne's Cat. Annals Ky. p. 35. The one noticed and figured in Anc. Mon., 



p. 36, PI. 14, No. 4 (from Rafinesqne's MS.), is probably included in the 



above. Works near Lexington are also described by C. W. Short, Trans. 



Am. Phil. Soc, vol. 1, new series (1818), pp. 311. 312. 



Works formerly on the site of Lexington, consisting of inclosures, a 



•'catacomb" (a kind of cave). 



Noticed and accoxint of the finds given by Thomas Ashe, "Travels" (ed. 1808), 



pp. 196-200. See also Imlay's Topog. Desc. West. N. Am., 3d ed., pp. 368- 



369. (This probably du])licates in part the preceding item.) 



Stone grave mound near Lexington, in which were 5 tiers of graves. 



Mentioned in a letter from Isaac Morrison to Rev. Jordan Dodge, January 11, 



1788, published in Am. Mus., vol. 5 (1789), pp. 57-59. 



Granatin County. 



Mound about 1.^ miles from the Ohio River at the junction of two 

 small streams. 



Mentioned by Warren Montforth, Sm. Rep., 1881, p. 684. 



G-rayson County. 



Rock shelter near Grayson Springs, containing a deposit of bones, 

 pottery, charcoal, etc. 



Mentioned in Eighth Rep. Peab. Mus., p. 48. 



