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It is built of loose clay and sand, with many small bowlders scattered 

 through it. A little to one side of the center near the top were traces 

 of human bones, completely decayed. By them lay a syenite celt. A 

 foot from the celt was a small arrowhead. 



Under the bones was an impacted mass about 8 feet across, the color 

 of ashes, though it seemed to contain nothing but sand. It extended 

 a foot below the natural surface and contained no trace of bone. Near 

 the. bottom of the mound and close to one side were 3 small sheets of 

 nnca. 



BATH COUNTY. 



SITLlNCiTOX. 



During a fieshet several years since a new channel or "cut-ofl"" was 

 made across a level bottom at this place. When the water subsided 

 nuiny human bones were found heaped up in the depression. Bullets 

 of different sizes as well as arrowheads were scattered along for more 

 than a hundred yards. Human bones have not been discovered else- 

 where in this bottom, and it is uncertain whether these had been buried 

 here or were carried in by the current from some other place. It is pos- 

 sible they mark some forgotten pioneer graveyard. 



A black steatite pipe and a butterfly gorget of green steatite have 

 been found in the same field with the bones, but none of the remains 

 common to Indian camps have ever been noticed. 



On a bluff on the next farm below Sitlington a great many human 

 bones have been exposed by plowing. They are confined to an area not 

 more than 15 feet in diameter. From the description it seems to be a 

 small burial pit. The only surface indication was an elevation of about 

 C inches. No excavating was allowed. 



DICKINSON MOUND. 



At a point on Cowpasture river, 2 miles below Millboro springs, 

 the geologic formation is somewhat unusual for this region. There 

 are 5 distinct terraces, the lowest subject to frequent overflow, the 

 highest being probably 120 feet above the water. The river makes a 

 curve of about 3 miles, the isthmus formed being not more than half 

 a mile wide. Tiie fourth terrace and the one next above it are on the 

 peninsula, which was an ancient island half a mile from the hills, the 

 third terrace extending across the intervening space. 



The fourth teriaee is entirely absent, except on the side next the 

 point. On it stands a mound, which after much cultivation is 30 feet 

 in diameter and 3 feet high. A trench IG feet wide was run through it 

 fiom the northern side, but the only trace of human bones observed was 

 a parietal and part of a frontal bone at a point feet outward from the 

 center and just above the bottom. Two feet farther in was a lec- 

 tangular hole with rounded corners, but not having a well-defii.ed or 



