""'Kou^Mr^] '' INDIAN camp" near strasburg 59 



IlalCa mile soutli of this mouud, in a ifield that rises from the river 

 ill a gentle slope, is an area of about 2 acres, known as " Indiaii 

 camp." Tlie soil is black and very productive, but no pottery, burned 

 stones, bones, or any other of the usual remains have ever been found. 



In the bottom just below j\ir Funk's house a flood some years ago 

 washed off a considerable quantity of soil, disclosing several places 

 where the earth over a space of 5 or G feet was very red, as if it had 

 been burned. These were possibly the sites of fire beds, but no trace 

 of them is now to be seen. 



VICINITY OF NEWMAnivET., 



Near the mouth of Smith creek, 5 miles north of Newmarket, is a 

 mound, now almost leveled by cultivation. Some human bones and a 

 few relics have been dui;' or plowed <»nt of it. 



It was at this point that Peyton' and KerchevaP located the Senedo 

 Indians. The latter says all the tribe, except two boys, were killed, 

 and the mound, whose heiglit he gives as 12 or 15 feet, contained the 

 bodies of the slain, being " literally lilled with human skeletons." But 

 the author appears not to reflect that a mound of such height could 

 scarcely be constructed by "two boys," or be so nearly obliterated by 

 the plow. 



On the adjoining farm, near the river, are 2 mounds. One has been 

 opened and is reported to have contained an extended skeleton 

 covered with flat stones. A grooved ax of about -") pounds' weight, a 

 leaf-shape quartzite knife G inches long, some arrowheads, and a 

 bl ick steatite i)latform pipe with a stem o inches wide, the cylindrical 

 bowl 5 inches long and joining the stem at an angle of about 135°, are 

 shown, which it is c!ain\ed were found with the skeleton. 



A mound a mile north of town on ground overlooking the river, and 

 another a mile southeast of town in a narrow bottom on the eastern 

 side of Smitli creek, have been comi)letely destroyed. Some human 

 bones have been exhumed in this bottom; it is not known whether they 

 were of Indians. 



WOODSTOCK. 



A mile south of Woodstock, on the farm of E. M. Bushong, is a 

 small mound on top of a ridge commanding an extensive view in every 

 direction. It is now about 35 feet across and 18 inches high. 



Fifteen feet northeast of the center on the original surface under a 

 l)ile of limestone which had been carried from some ravine in the 

 vicinity — tliere being none in [)lace nearer than a quarter of a mile 

 away — were some fragments of bones apparently of a ])erson about 14 

 years of age. Two feet sontli of this, in the mound, were a few decayed 

 bones belonging to another skeleton. 



' Peytou, ,T. L., History of An<>usta County, 1882, p. 6. 

 -kercheval, 8., History oftlie Valley, 1S3B, p. 50. 



