68 JAMES AND POTOMAC ARCHEOLOGY Lethnologt 



away are 2 others, on a ridge 100 feet above the terrace. They are of 

 earth and stoue in about equal proportions; the smaller is 20 feet in 

 diameter and 18 inches high, the larger 32 by 50 feet, with the longer 

 axis east and west, and 30 inches high. This was removed and found to 

 cover 6 graves, none of them more than 3 feet in diameter ; one extended 

 10 inches below the original surface, none of the others being more 

 than a foot deep. The stones reached to the bottom in every one, 

 some being inclined against the sides. No traces of human bones were 

 found; indeed the only relics observable were a few Hint chips scat- 

 tered throughout the earth. 



A small cairn luis been removed from the first terrace near the river 

 bluft' on the McNeill fiirm. 



On Thompson Parson's -farm, 8 miles above Moorfield, on South fork, 

 was a cairn 18 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, on a hillside 100 feet 

 above the river. Nothing was found in it, although stone implements 

 have been found in the bottom lands below. 



On Duidy's farm, two miles below Parson's, on a point 50 feet above 

 the river, are 2 mounds of stone, one 15 feet in diameter and IS inches 

 high, the other 30 feet in diameter and 2 feet high, united at the base. 

 They have been opened, but the result could not be learned. 



On Welton\s farm, 8 miles south of Moorfield, on the left side of 

 South branch, were 3 small cairns; all have been opened, but contained 

 nothing of archeologic interest. 



A mound of earth and stone, 25 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, on 

 William Baker's faim, miles above Moorfield, on South branch, has 

 never been opened. 



On Jesse Fisher's form, on South branch, 7 miles above Moorfield, 

 were 3 mounds, one of which had been partly, and anotlier entirely, 

 removed. The third, 25 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, has been 

 partially opened, and it is reported that some flints were found in it. 

 Removal of nearly the entire structure showed that it covered a single 

 grave a foot deep, the earth from whicli had been thrown out on every 

 side. In the bottom were a plate of mica, 3 roughly worked arrow- 

 heads, a piece of quartz crystal, some flint flakes, a. piece of slate with 

 3 shallow depressions on one side (probably a polisher), and a small 

 quantity of black substance, probably graphite, intermingled with the 

 earth, which, when rubbed on a smooth surface, exactly resembles 

 ordinary stove polish. 



There is a cairn on the Randolph place, near the Junction of South 

 branch and South fork ; another on the Newman place, 2 miles south 

 of Moorfield, and two others may be seen on the Inkermann farm, in 

 the vicinity of the latter. 



Four miles south of Moorfield, on Jesse Fisher's farm, were 4 mounds, 

 one of which had been removed; another, 20 feet in diameter and 

 2 feet high, M^as not opened. The third, 25 feet across and a foot 

 high, covered a single grave reaching G inches into the original 



