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Here were four mounds within a short distance of om; another ; each 

 had contained a single large grave, all of which had, unfortunately, 

 been previously excavated. One mound, which measured 21 feet in 

 diameter, contained a grave which measured inside 7 feet 10 inches 

 in length and 3 feet 5 inches in width, "built of slabs and masses of 

 sandstone and of limestone, the masses in nearly every case showing 

 flat surfaces which had been utilized in the construction of the grave, 

 giving it interiorly a comparatively regular surface.'' The large 

 block on the left had been displaced by the roots of the tree. This 

 large grave "had been regularly built up from the yellow, undis- 

 turbed clay which served as a foundation, of slabs and blocks laid on 

 their sides as in the case of walls, to a height of 2 feet 3 inches." 

 Many large slabs which lay scattered about were supposed to have 

 served as the cover of the grave. A few fragments of human bones 

 were found within the inclosure. (Moore, (5), pp. 485-487.) This 

 most interesting burial place is shown in plate 8, h. And how nu- 

 merous the smaller graves were in the adjacent country may be 

 learned from these references : In Warren County, " on the north 

 bank of the river, near Bowling-Green, are a great many ancient 

 graves, some of them with a row of stones set on edge around them. 

 These graves, with a large mound on v/hich large trees are growing, 

 are included within the remains of an old fort built of earth. Some 

 ancient relics were found here in 1838." (Collins, (1), p. 542.) And 

 of the adjoining county of Barren, when referring to a mound on 

 Big Barren River, 12 miles from Glasgow, in which stone graves 

 were found, he said : " In the neighborhood, for half a mile or more, 

 are found many of these graves" (p. 176). Again, when writing of 

 discoveries made in Bourbon County, many miles northeast of the 

 preceding, he told that " on all of the principal water courses in the 

 county, Indian graves are to be found, sometimes single, but most 

 frequently several grouped together. Single graves are usually in- 

 dicated by broad flat stones, set in the ground edgewise around the 

 skeleton: but where a number have been deposited together, rude 

 stone walls were erected around them, and these having fallen in- 

 Avards, the rocks retain a vertical position, sometimes resembling a 

 rought pavement" (p. 194). 



The latter must have resembled the burials encountered along the 

 summits of the bluffs overlooking the Ohio, in Campbell County, 

 Kentucky, and elsewhere. 



Although stone-lined graves are so numerous in the valleys south 

 of the Ohio, and may be regarded the most characteristic form of 

 burial practiced in that region, nevertheless many other types of 

 graves are to be encountered. During the past few centuries the coun- 

 try in question was undoubtedly occupied, and possibly reoccupied, 

 by various tribes belonging to different stocks and possessing unlike 



