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At the east edge of the trench, 12 feet out, 3 feet up, was a grave 
in which were traces of bone of two young children; with them were 
fragments of a small pot. 
At 12 feet out, 2 feet from west side of trench, was a posthole 
6 inches across, which reached to the bottom of the mound; the 
timber had been set here and the earth piled around it, as the sides 
of the hole showed no marks of a digging tool. Extending in a 
straight row across the trench from this were smaller holes, 3 to 4 
inches in diameter, a little more than 5 feet apart; all of them 
stopped a foot to 2 feet above the bottom of the mound, the earth 
being solid below them. A few similar small holes were found, but 
in no regular order; there may be more in the undug parts. 
In the east wall of the trench, 10 feet out, 2 feet up, was an infant 
burial; with it was a “ flowerpot ” vase less than 2 inches high, with 
two small holes near the top for suspension; probably a child’s toy. 
Along the center line in the 5-10-foot zone was an elliptical hole 
5 by 31% feet and a little more than 3 feet deep, dug when the mound 
had reached that height, down to the original surface. The sides 
were rather regular; the earth with which it was filled breaking 
away from the sides easily in some places. There was nothing in it. 
Along the east wall in the 5-15-foot zone was a depression filled 
with downward curved layers, giving the impression that the mound 
had caved here into a basin-shaped hole; but it was due to material 
having been dumped in two small heaps or ridges and the space be- 
tween them filled by throwing earth over the tops and allowing it to 
roll or slide down the adjacent slopes of each pile. (PI. 68, a.) 
Mention is made above of the lumpy or cloddy condition of the 
earth in the central part of the mound, over the 5-foot stratum. 
This gave rise to the hope that a large grave or cavity of some de- 
scription had been dug in the ground beneath the mound; and much 
of the work done, after this was observed, had been directed toward 
having ample room when the time came to clean it out. This 
loosened condition abruptly ceased about 20 inches above the bot- 
tom; and except for an ash pit, to be described later, the clay below 
this level was as solid as in any other part of the mound, and it 
rested on undisturbed soil. On this level, however—20 inches above 
the bottom—over a space 10 or 12 feet across around the central part 
of the first, or “buckshot ” mound, were the decayed bones of a 
number of bodies. How many it is impossible to state; from the area 
over which they reached there could not have been fewer than five 
or six, and there may have been four times that many. Infants’ 
teeth, and teeth much worn, occurred. One adult body had been 
laid between two small logs. Among the remains was one deco- 
rated pot 2 inches high containing minute desiccated fragments of 
