ARCHEOLOGY"! 

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EXCAVATIONS AT LINVILLE 



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liad staine<I tlie earth about tliem a V)i'ight red, .> bone polishers, 4 bone 

 needles, and G quartz crystals, one of the latter with a slight groove 

 around a projection from the end. Over this was a layer of charcoal 

 extending upward to the 10 foot stratum of bone above mentioned, and 

 containing several hundred Marginella shel's that showed indications of 

 having been burned. Above the northern margin of the charcoal layer 

 was a skull by wliich lay 14 columellas; (> inches to the northward 

 of this Avas another skull with a flint 

 drill, 2 arrowheads, some cores and 

 chips, 2 bone jtolishers and 2 bone 

 needles; and a foot northward from 

 the last was a third with 3 columellas. 

 These were all at the bottom of the 

 bed, and it was impossible to trace 

 any connection between them and the 

 other bones. 



A grave southwest of the center con- 

 tained a^ doubled skeleton, on tlie left 

 side, head toward the south; by the 

 skull lay the lower portion of the orna- 

 ment shown in figure 9,' and a number 

 of animal ribs 5 or inches long and 

 obtusely pointed at one end; at the 

 northern edge of the grave on the orig- 

 inal surface was a mass of red ocher. 

 From this level to the top of the 

 mound, over the grave and on every 

 side ofit,was a mixture of bones, nmny 

 of them burned ; beads, both shell and 

 disk; and many columellas. 



Eight feet east of the center was a 

 funnel- shape burial pit 6 by 8 feet at 

 the top, extending the entire depth of 

 the mound, the sides being slightly 

 incurved. An inverted pot, holding 

 about 1^ pints, lay at one side. There 

 were scores of in<Iividual skeletons, 

 but all the bones werecrushed, broken, fig. s.^carv.Hi i.one fv...., Lmviiio, Virginia. 

 and displaced, so that very few pieces of skull more than 2 or .'» inches 

 ill, diameter were found. Under this deposit was a grave a foot «leep, 

 4 feet north and south by 5.^ i'cet east and west. In this were IS skel- 

 etons, including those of 2 infants with Avhom were mussel shells and 

 shell beads. Among them were a piece of decayed wood (apparently a 

 pine knot), 22 columellas, a celt, some disk beads, a bone needle, 

 and potsherds. At the northwestern corner, partly ou the natural 



' Oiiii of those "coiiilts'' is 1.")^ inches, tlie other 17 inches, in leugth. 



