20 JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCIIKOLOGY Knulogy 



surface, loose in tlie eartli, was found a charred ear of corn, and a foot 

 away a quantity of shelled corn. 



Ninth day; 3 shallow holes and 2 from 4 to 4i feet deep were found, 

 in one of which was a bear skull. Two graves also were found, about 

 3 feet apart. Both skeletons were folded, rested on right side, with 

 head toward the east. The femur of one was IG inches long; the bones 

 were very soft. Nothing was buried with it. The skull of the other was 

 small, rather long and narrow and broken transversely across the top 

 in a way that could scarcely result from the pressure of the earth. The 

 fracture seemed due to a blow, but the inner plate was not depressed or 

 shattered, the fracture extending through the bone in a sharp, well 

 defined line. All the molars were gone from the lower jaw and. the 

 sockets entirely closed. The femur measured 17J inches in length. 



On the tenth day 2 holes were found, one 6 feet deep and 4 feet 

 across, containing an arrowhead and a needle, the other 4 feet in dei)th 

 and the same in diameter, with a large amount of ashes and cliarcoal, 

 many anhnal bones, the entire skeleton of a small wolf, and about 40 

 burned stones ranging from 2 to 50 pounds in weight, besides scores of 

 smaller ones. 



The first skeleton found, that of a child about 4 years of age, was 

 doubled, and lay on the right side. It rested on the clay at a depth of 

 18 inches, and nearly 150 periwinkle and Marginella shells accompanied 

 it. The next skeleton, about 2 feet east of the first, was that of an 

 adult, lying in the same position, with the head southward. It was 3 

 feet under the surface. A bear tusk lay 3 or 4 inches north of the 

 sacrum, and a bone and a shell bead lay near the head. 



Just east of the child's skeleton was that of a woman who had evi- 

 dently died in childbirth. In the pelvic cavity were found an infant's 

 bones fully as large as some of those separately buried. The body was 

 extended on the back, with head toward the east. The skull lay with 

 the vertex up, the face turned southward, the displacement being 

 doubtless caused by settling of the earth. The legs were drawn up 

 until the feet were near the hips. The knees were a little north and the 

 feet a little south of the line of the spine; they may have been placed 

 thus or may have assumed the position after burial. Around the neck 

 were more than a hundred small, slender, tubular shell beads, some 

 stuck together end to end. Above the feet, with 8 inches of earth inter- 

 vening, was a cobblestone about 40 pounds in weight. 



A foot south of the head of this skeleton, in the same grave, was a 

 small part of the upper jawbone of another individual. No other 

 human bones were found with it; but as it lay at the edge of the rail- 

 way cut, it is possible the remainder of tlie skeleton had been previ- 

 ously dug out and the earth had fallen over this portion. 



Near the second skeleton, and a little south of a line from it to the 

 child's skeleton, was a single lower jaw, sound and nearly perfect, 

 though many of the teeth had fallen out. Some fragments of the 



