FOWKB J 



FIRE BED« ON KITE PLACE 



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one point on tlie bottom; and chips of qumtzite, scraps of mica, and 

 j3ieces of arrows were abniidant through the entire structure. 



In the bottom hind below this mound the rtood of 1870 uncovered 

 between 200 and 300 aboriginal fire beds, from 4 to feet in diameter, 

 either on the bare surface or on a stratum of bowlders carelully placed. 

 Quantities of Hakings, broken and burned bones, 

 other indications of a village site were washed out 



burned stones, and 



PKICK FAKM. 



n the farm of C ]>. Price, half a mile northof Alma, on the summit 

 of a hill overlooking the largest bottom <»n the Shenandoah, is a mound 

 20 by 28 feet and 2 feet high, composed of 

 earth and stone in about equal quantities. 



At the center, over an area 4 feet in diam 

 eter, the stones reached to the hard gravelly 

 subsoil. No relics or traces of bone were in 

 this pit, but it was evident from the appear- 

 ance of the earth that a body, or bodies, had 

 been deposited in it. 



LEE l-ON(i KAKM. 



On a high point on the farm of Lee Long, 

 adjoining the Price jilace on the north, is a 

 small cairn similar to many others in this 

 section. Nothing was found in it. 



IMIILll' LONG IAi;.M. 



On the farm of Philip Long, 3 miles south- 

 west of White House ford, are .'> mounds 

 which, after much mutilation by jilow and 

 spade, are not more than 2 feet high, and 

 measure, the first, 50 by 25 feet, the longer 

 axis northeast and southwest; the second, 25 

 feet northwest from the first and ])arallel to 

 it, 38 by 28 feet; and the third, 10 feet north 

 of the second, 37 by 25 feet, the longer axis 

 northwest and southeast. They are men- 

 tioned in Kercheval's History of the Valley, 

 which also states that many Indian graves 

 exist immediately around them; but no trace of these can be found, 

 and it is probable that the author alludes to dei)ressions from which 

 earth was taken to form the mounds. 



In the first the central portion was excavated over an area 12 by 25 feet. 

 At several places southwest of the center small fragments of bone were 

 found, but not enough to denote the number or iwsition of the bodies. 

 Tiie earth around them was unchanged in api)earance or color. Six 



Fig. 10.— Gorget Ironi Phihi) Long 

 uioiiucl, Pago county, Virgiuia. 



