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JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY 



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 ETHNOLOGY 



east of this a skeleton of a cliild about 14 years of age was found. It 

 lay on the left side, M'itli head toward the east; a portion of the lower 

 jaw lay several inches to one side, but there was no trace of the skull. 

 As the bones were ouly a few inches beneath the surface, the remainder 

 of the skull probably had been destroyed by the plow. 



On the twelfth day 6 holes were found ; 4 near together, each about 3 

 feet deep, yielded nothing ; one, 4 feet in both dimensions, contained 

 a large fterforated mussel shell and a broken scraper or currier made 

 from the leg bone of a deer (figure 3). Another, nearly feet deep, and 

 4 feet across, had near the miiidle a stratum of ashes about 2 feet thick. 



Tlie first skeleton found lay on the right side, head toward the east; 

 the skull had been destroyed by the plow. One tibia also was broken, 

 the ends being about an inch apart, and the pieces, which were firmly 

 embedded in undisturbed earth, not in the same line. A broken needle 

 was with the skeleton. 



Fragments of 2 other skeletons were found near the first; of one, only 

 a portion of the skull remained; of the other, there was no trace of the 

 skull. 



Fig. 3.— Currier from Gala, Botetourt couuty, Viigiuia. 



The fourth and fifth skeletons lay on their right sides, with the heads 

 toward the east. One had with it a perforated shell disk with a shell 

 bead stuck in the hole. 



Close to tlie last hole was the sixth skeleton, lying on the back, head 

 southward, legs drawn up close to the body and turned to the left. The 

 skull lay face upward, the front part having been torn away by the plow. 

 A large bone fishhook, rudely finished, lay by or under the chin. The 

 femur was 18.^ inches long. 



The next skeleton was that of a very small child; only a few broken 

 bones remained. A number of long, slender shell beads were buried 

 with it, but so badly decayed that only 12 could be recovered. 



A few pieces of bone belonging to another skeleton were found, but 

 not enough to ascertain how it had been placed. 



These 8 skeletons were lying on the clay which was nowhere, except 

 in the holes, more than a foot below the surface; consequently they 

 were almost entirely decayed and their position was difflcult to deter- 

 mine. 



The twelfth day a hole was found on the edge of the railway cut; most 

 of it had been removed by that excavation. In the i)ortion renniiuing 

 was a considerable quantity of broken pottery. Two other holes, each 

 about 3 feet deep and 4 feet in diameter, also contained some pottexy. 



