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and placed within inclosures formed of upright posts. The two in- 

 closures, placed one above the other, were indicated by "two series 

 of upright postmolds, averaging 5 inches in diameter, equidistant 

 10 inches, and forming a perfect circle 3G feet in diameter." 



Many other timbers had entered into the construction of the in- 

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Fig 16. — Plan of a habitation, with near-by graves, Ross County, Ohio. 



separating the two inclosures. The bottom of the lower one liad 

 evidently been covered with smaller timbers, and " all the skeletons 

 discovered were in the area inclosed by these posts. They lay at 

 ditl'erent depths and in different positions, the favorite or predom- 

 inant one, at least in the upper portion, being just inside and along- 

 side of the inner circle of palings. The skeletons unearthed were 

 all in a remarkably good state of preservation. None of them could 

 have been intrusively buried." Sixteen skeletons were discovered, 

 all except one " lay stretched out at full length," and the single one 



