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Hampshire County, 



Stoue burial moiimls on the eastern side of South Branch Mountain, 

 about a mile and a half from the mouth of South Branch River at a 

 point known as "Shin Bottom," on the land of Chas. French. Ex- 

 plored. 



Described by L. A. Kengla, Sin. Eep., 1883, pp. 868-87:>. 

 Cemetery on an island in the South Branch of the Potomac River, 

 discovered by a flood which washed out skeletons, i)ottery, fragments 

 of bone and shell, and something like rude pipes of copper. 



Nevr York Herald, May 3, 1886. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 3, 1886. 

 Reported in Mat. ponr I'Historie de I'Honin.e, vol. 3 (1886), p. 321. 



Skeletons, pipes, bone, beads, etc., exhumed on Pancakes Island, 10 

 miles above Romuey, by Mr. W. K. Moorehead. 



Skeletons of gigantic size exhumed on farm of Mr. Herriot at Hang- 

 ing Rocks. 

 Large mound on farm of Mr. Garrett Postares. 



Reported iu Baltimore Suu, Jau. 23, 1889. Also, American Catholic News, Feb. 

 27, 1889. 



Indian cemetery near Potomac River about 8 miles from Romney. 

 Skeletons, earthenware pots, beads, arrow heads, etc., were found 

 here. 



Reported iu Baltimore Sun, Dec. 25, 1888. 



Kanawha County. 



Pictographs known as "Calico Rock" on a bowlder 5 miles above 

 Charleston. Figured by Bishop Madison. 

 Reported by John L. Cole. 

 Mounds on B. H. Smith's farm 7 miles below Charleston. 



Reported by John L. Cole and P. W. Norris. 

 Ancient works near Charleston, mounds, enclosures, pits and stone 

 cists along the Kanawha River from 3 to 8 miles below Charleston. 



Described and figured iu Report ; one mound described and figured by Cyrus 

 Thomas in Science, vol. 3 (1884), p. 619 ; also iu the 5th Ann. Rep. Bur. 

 Ethn., pp. 53-58. See also " Cherokees iu i)re-Columbiau Times," by Cyrus 

 Thomas (1890), pp. 47-58. 



" Brownstown works," an ancient village site or refuse heap, and an 

 earth enclosure on the site of the present village of Brownstown, just 

 below the point where Len's Creek enters the Kanawha River. 



The "Len Creek Mounds," a number of mounds in the deep valley of 

 Len Creek. One opened. 



Elk River Works, a circular enclosure with gateway, mound and in- 

 terior ditch, one mile north of Charleston on the opposite side of the 

 Elk River. 



Small conical mound on the summit of a low pass over which ran an 

 ancient trail, four miles up the river from the preceding. 



Croup of small conical mounds two miles above the last mentioned, 

 and midway between these and the pass is another group of five mounds. 



Enclosnre near St. Albans iu a horse shoe bend of the Coal River, two. 



