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>Yhich once occupied the site. And to quote at length : " The site of 

 the great mound had been properly prepared and its beginning was 

 at the south end of the mound, marked by large posts set in the 

 ground at a dei)th varying from two and one-half to three feet. The 

 south end of the enclosure was made in the form of a semicircle, and 

 the sides continuing in a straight line north for sixty feet, when the 

 line of posts was turned at right angles to the east wall and running 

 across toward the west side, where an opening was left for an en- 

 trance. This enclosure of sixty feet in length measuring from the 

 center of the circle on the south to the row of posts running across the 

 mound at right angles to the outside walls, forty feet in width at the 

 north end, was no doubt the first structure or enclosure for the recep- 

 tion of the dead. The second enclosure ^^ as merely a continuation of 

 the outside walls of the first, extending some seventy feet directly to 

 the north . . ." During the final work a total of 133 burials were 

 encountered, and of these 128 were cremated. "All the burials, 

 whether cremated or uncremated, were placed in a prepared grave 

 and great care and some degree of skill was displayed in their con- 

 struction. The graves of the cremated were similar to each other so 

 far as the outside construction was concerned, but unlike in the gen- 

 eral make up of the inside of the grave. Out of one hundred and 

 twenty-eight graves unearthed, four different types were found, and 

 these were man}^ times duplicated during the explorations. First. 

 The plain elevated platform made of clay and usually elevated from 

 three to six inches above the prepared platform. . . . These plain 

 platforms averaged in length about four feet and in width two and 

 one-half to three feet. The logs were usually made the exact size of 

 the graves. In a few instances they extended over at one end or the 

 other, and not a single grave was found on the base of this entire 

 mound that did not show the use of logs as an outline for the grave. 

 In many instances the logs w^ere put in place upon the platform and 

 plastered over with this clay, and then the inside of the grave was 

 made. . . . Second. The next type of grave was similar to the first 

 and apparently made in the same way, with this difference : the top of 

 the platform was cut out and made in the form of a basin, varying in 

 depth at the center from two to four inches. . . . Third. Elliptical 

 shaped grave. In this form of grave the platform was similar to the 

 other graves, but the timber used in the construction of the outside 

 portion was made of small pieces of logs and the clay plastered over 

 them. . . . This form of grave would vary in depth from four to 

 eight inches. . . . Fourth. The grave made in the form of a paral- 

 lelogram. Tliis form of grave was found in various portions of the 

 mound and was constructed similar in every respect to the other 

 types, the logs being put in place and plastered over, while the inside 

 was removed to a depth varying from four to twelve inches. For the 



