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of two pots; one was globular, with flanging top, of about a pint 
capacity, decorated with curves and figures impressed with a blunt 
point. The other, of which there was only a part, was differently 
decorated. 
At 25 feet in was a shallow depression which had been dug from 
the top when the mound had reached an elevation of 10 feet. It 
contained human bones in the last stage of decay, but obviously 
there had been either an interment of folded bodies or a deposit of 
skeletal remains; no method or system of burial could be made out. 
Among the bones was a small monitor pipe and another pipe made of 
soft sandstone. The latter was smashed into small fragments by a 
Llow of the pick, so its shape could not be ascertained. 
A foot north of this grave, at a level only a few inches higher, 
was more rotten bone, in a very thin stratum, less than 2 feet across. 
The bones only of a skeleton had been placed here, in a pile. With 
them was part of a monitor pipe, the front portion of the stem and 
most of the bowl being gone; the break was old and no other pieces 
could be found. 
A foot east of this was more bone substance in which were the 
caps of the teeth of a child 3 or 4 years old. These fell to pieces 
when handled. 
The last two deposits were not in graves but had been laid on 
the surface and covered while this part of the mound was in course 
of erection. 
Owing to the difficulty of removing excavated earth in a trench 
of this depth, the face of the bank was marked off in two sections 
when a distance of 22 feet from the center was reached. The 
division plane was at 5 feet from the bottom of the mound. It 
was deemed that this amount would not be too great for easy 
removal in case a grave-pit or other cavity should be found at or 
near the center. As the subsequent work was carried along on top 
of this 5-foot bench until the end of the trench was reached, it 
will, for the present, be called “bottom” in relation to the part 
above it, and the description next following will apply only to the 
upper portion. 
At 12 to 15 feet from the center the earth in the lower, central part 
of the trench took on a checkered aspect in all directions, being broken 
into angular clods and chunks of varying sizes. Its appearance 
was that of a hard-packed material which had slowly settled into 
a cavity beneath it, giving away a little at a time, beginning at the 
lower part. Water had penetrated these cracks, leaving in them a 
very thin sedimentary deposit of white silt, impalpable as flour; 
this filled cracks running in any direction, but was most apparent 
in those which were somewhat horizontal. 
