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axis parallel with that of the inoimd, in vhieh were the reinaiiis of 32 

 adults and 7 children. Only the bones had been deposited, and they 

 were mingled in tlie most i)romisciious manner. In the southeastern 

 end of the jiit there were many fragments of human skulls, limb bones, 

 and vertebrie, some of them completely incinerated. The only other 

 relics found were a few columellas split lengthwise, none being entire. 



Almost exactly at the middle of the bank, was a grave 4 feet in 

 diameter and 10 inches deep, in which lay the skeleton of an adult, 

 lying on the right side, nearly straight, with the head toward the south. 

 Three columellas UA to 3 inches long and one C inches long lay by the 

 head. 



When the bank was C feet from the center, 14 skeletons mingled with 

 earth were discovered at its eastern end. They occui)ied a space 4 feet 

 in diameter and a little more than 3 feet in thickness, extending a foot 

 below the original level. A clay pipe, many ManjlneUa shells, 2 long 

 columellas, and the cremated bones of a child an<l an adult were among 

 them. Four of the skulls lay almost in a vertical line separated by 2 

 to 4 iniihes of earth. 



Within a few inches of this deposit, toward the center, was a small 

 bone-bed a foot thick, near the middle of which was a thin stratum of 

 the cremated bones of a youth and an adult; scattered through it were 

 2 steatite platform pipes, 4 panther claws, and 4 columellas. Five or 

 G skulls also were found. Immediately below lay the bones of an infant 

 in their proper position, with disk and Marginella shell beads; a little 

 nearer the center on the bottom of the mound were the remains of 

 another infant, who evidently had been b(nn but a few days, and with 

 which were 38 columellas and many disk beads. 



Near the center of the mound, in soft black earth apparently result- 

 ing fiom decay of organic matter, was a bone dei)osit 8 feet across. At 

 its western margin was the skeleton of an infant ' having small beads 

 scattered from head to feet. Near this, among the bones, were other 

 deposits of beads; and at various points a broken and a perfect clay 

 l)ipe, 2 well-made steatite pipes, and a triangular arrowhead were found. 

 The arrowhead, like all other finished tiint implements found at this 

 locality, was^ delicately worked, thin, symmetric, and sharp. A femur 

 was found that had sustained a compound fracture, the ends having 

 overlapped fully two inches and healed in that position. Another femur 

 was greatly enlarged, rough, and with a deep hole apparently of tubei*- 

 cular origin in the side running parallel with the shaft. 



A foot above this dep(»sit was one similar but smaller. In it were 

 many fragments of burned bones of various parts of the body, as well 

 as a number of teeth. 



Four feet west of the center was a grave 2 feet deep, in which lay a 

 skeleton, doubled uj), on right side, with the head southward. W^itli it 



' No infant in this monud had hcen folded, though uono of the many skeletons of 

 youths and older children were extended. 



