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iipi)ermost stones came together above the middle of the grave, forming 

 an arch. Several wagon loads of loose stones were then thrown on, 

 making a mound more than 4 feet high and 30 leet in diameter. In the 

 vault were not less than 20 extended skeletons of adults, the skulls all 

 toward the west, laid as closely together as they could be phu-ed on the 

 ground and exposed rock which formed the natural surface. The small 

 amount of earth within the grave was very black and loose. A quan- 

 tity of bone and shell beads sufiicient to till a cigar-box was found 

 among them. 



This description exactly corresponds with that of a grave near liipley, 

 Ohio, except that the latter contained fewer skeletons. 



Half a mile southeast of the above mound was another, also of stone, 

 in which were several skeletons, with arrowpoints and spearheads and 

 celts. It was noticed at the time that while one mound contained no 

 relics but beads, only weapons were found in the other. 



WASHINGTON COUNTY, MARYLAND. 



A mound and a cemetery were removed near dam nund)er 4, in dig- 

 ging the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Two small mounds stood near 

 the Miller sawmill, 3 miles below Sharpsburg, at the mouth of Antie- 

 tam creek; human bones also were found there in excavating for the 

 canal. Another was near the river, 2 miles west of Sharpsburg. All 

 these have been opened; they were of stone and quite small; pipes, 

 pottery fragments, and bone ornaments or implements were found in 

 them. 



There is a burial cave on S. S. Stauffer's land, 2 miles south of 

 Sharpsburg, in a bluff that overlooks Antietam creek, and about 40 feet 

 above the level of that stream. The opening is not sufficiently large 

 to allow a man to enter upright, and the cave is only a few yards in 

 extent in any direction. Human bones and some relics, including a pipe, 

 have been found in it, under flat stones which lie only a few inches 

 below the surface; some of the bones were calcined. The earth below 

 them has not been disturbed, and its depth is not known. 



At the mouth of the Conococheague, on the upjier side, is a village 

 site where bones, i)ottery, and other relics, including an untinished 

 steatite pipe of very modern North Carolina type, have been found, 

 with great quantities ot chips and spalls; it extends along the river 

 bank for more than 300 yards. Half a mile farther up the river, on a 

 bluff, was a small cairn which upon examination yielded human bones 

 and a few relics. 



A mile west of Hagerstown is a flat rock near a large spring; tradi- 

 tion says it was an Indian council i)lace. Quantities of worked flint, 

 chips, spalls, and some finished implements were formerly found on 

 and about the rock; it was probably an arrowhead factory. 



Two miles above Hancock, on the Bowles farm, is a large spring at 

 the foot of the hill. It was formerly a camping place of the Indians. 



