FOWKE] EXPLORATIONS IN RED RIVER VALLEY 425 
At each corner of the trench, a foot above bottom, were fragmen- 
tary bones of a young child with wood or bark around them as 
if they had been inclosed in it. 
Possibly other graves may exist beyond the area excavated, which 
extended 3 feet past the center; but the lack of discoveries in those 
cleared out and the difficulty of removing the overlying clay, which 
was nearly 13 feet deep where the work ceased, made further examina- 
tion undesirable. 
Mounp 9.—This is a small affair on the extreme edge of the bluff, 
250 feet southwest of Mound 8, and in the same field. So much 
digging has been done in it that no estimate could be made as to its 
size. Some years ago a small coin was found on the mound, and 
since then many persons have spent much time in the endeavor to 
secure the remainder of the “ treasure.” 
It is reported that “a small clay pot and some bones” were un- 
earthed several feet from,the center. 
Mounp 10.—On the edge of the bluff, 200 yards nearly east from 
Mound 8, was a mound which after much cultivation measured 4 
feet high and 60 feet across. A circle 20 feet in diameter was laid 
off on the top, as near the middle as could be determined, and all 
the earth within this was removed. It was uniform in character, con- 
taining only surface soil like that in the field around; no material 
from a greater depth was used. The usual pieces of pottery, char- 
coal, and flint were found. There were also two small pieces of 
grooved burned clay similar to those occurring so abundantly north 
of Delhi; a small, much used hammer or flint chipper of yellowish 
quartz, and a symmetrical, highly polished plummet made of mag- 
netic iron ore. There was no evidence of a burial; the component 
earth merged so gradually into the underlying soil that no line of 
demarcation could be traced. There was no fire bed and no indi- 
cation that a grave had been dug, although the excavation was car- 
ried well down into the subsoil. At no place was there any difference 
in the appearance of the earth from that at the same level else- 
where, except in one spot near the northern edge of the excavation, 
where there was an irregular depression 18 or 20 inches across 
and a little less than a foot deep, filled with bluish clay in which 
were small fragments of charcoal and burned earth. 
Mounp 11.—This seems to have been erected as a “square,” flat- 
topped domiciliary pile; but it has been cultivated for many years, 
and its exact size or shape can not be ascertained. Its elevation now, 
at the highest point, is 314 feet, the surface being quite uneven. 
Measuring to the present edge of the slopes, the longest diameter is 
120 feet on a line north of west, the shortest 90 feet nearly northeast. 
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