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the pits; the shells were empty when placed in it; so it was nothing 
in the nature of a “clam bake.” 
Views of sections in different parts of the mound are presented 
in Plate 76, a, showing the stump of a large tree which was dug out; 
Plate 75, 6, along the west bank; Plate 76, 6, the end of the trench, 
the worked over material, and the ditch cut through this to expose 
the west bank. 
The first human bones were found at 55 feet, on the eastern side 
of the trench. They belonged to a youth of 13 or 14 years. There 
were parts of skull, vertebrae, and limbs, all broken into small pieces. 
Among them were scraps of pottery. South of these, and continuous 
with them, in a small pile, were some broken bones of an adult. It 
is difficult to avoid the conviction that these fragmentary bones were 
the remnants of a cannibal feast. 
At several other places in the trench were discovered human bones 
similarly broken or scattered, and pointing to the same conclusion. 
A few of them may have been dragged from their original resting 
place by groundhogs or other burrowing animals which had tun- 
neled into the mound; but there were very few runways made by 
these animals; besides, most of the fragmentary bones thus found 
were packed in among shells which had not been disturbed since 
they were deposited. Moreover, although rodents would gnaw bones, 
they could not break them in such way as to leave sharp edges; and 
the few runways that existed were smoothly worn and free from 
débris, as the shells will not settle into small cavities. 
The first burial found was at 65 feet, in the west face of the trench, 
3 feet above the bottom. The body had been closely folded and 
laid with the head toward the southeast. The bones were soft and 
crushed; the teeth much worn. 
A foot to the south of this skeleton, 6 feet east and 3 feet higher, 
was another closely folded skeleton with the head north. This, also, 
was of an old person; the bones were crushed, so that only the 
humerus could be measured. It was 13 inches long. 
A singular feature in connection with these skeletons was that on 
or against the pelvis of each was another pelvis from which the leg 
bones belonging to it extended in a straight line with the back or 
body of the individual by whom it was placed. This gave to the 
bones, as they lay in the shells, the appearance of belonging to a per- 
son with two sets of legs, one set drawn up against the front of the 
body, the other set projecting horizontally. No trace of any upper 
parts of the bodies belonging to these extended limbs could be dis- 
covered; and that only the bones themselves, denuded of flesh, had 
been placed here was further indicated by the fact that they were 
not quite in their proper order, one fibula, especially, being exactly 
