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no trace of bone was left nor any object which might have accom- 
panied the ceremony. It is difficult to understand how a fire as hot 
as this evidently was had left no marks on the stone; the ashes lay 
directly on it. The stone itself was a foot above the bottom of the 
mound, there being below it that thickness of dumped earth in which 
were a few water shells and scraps of charcoal. That the fire was 
made in the hole is proven by the condition of the sides; the ashes 
resulted from it. The burned earth filling it may, however, have been 
thrown in later. 
Plate 66, 6, shows the stone as it appears after the earth had been 
removed from over and around it. 
The mound was cleared out down to the subsoil over a space 18 
feet across. There was nothing else in it. 
No. 2.—A hundred yards south of the large mound, near the bank 
of the creek, was a mound which after long cultivation was about 2 
feet high. Its base merged so imperceptibly with the level field that 
the breadth could not be determined. A circle 25 feet in diameter 
was marked off around the center, as near as this could be guessed at, 
and the earth within this line removed to the subsoil. 
On the west side, 12 to 18 inches above the bottom, was a mass of 
ashes, charcoal, and burned earth, which extended over fully one- 
half of that side and had resulted from a fire or fires made when 
the mound had reached that height. It was not regular in level, 
outline, or thickness; most of the fuel had been entirely consumed, 
though there was some charcoal left, the pieces varying in size from 
small twigs to chunks or branches 4 inches thick. On the north edge 
of this fire bed was a deposit of ashes, fully a bushel in quantity, 
which had been raked from the bed and piled here; a layer of char- 
coal, continuous with the main deposit, extended unbroken over 
them and for 3 or 4 feet beyond. 
At the assumed center was a hemispherical depression of a gallon 
capacity filled with clean ashes. The earth around it was slightly 
reddened by heat. 
Loose in the earth were the usual pottery fragments, pieces of flint, 
and similar refuse gathered up in the earth used for building. 
Among the pottery was a piece with a handle of unusual form 
(pl. 79, a) and another showing a typical southern form of stamped 
impression. There was also a discoidal made of a siliceous stone, 
with a deep pit on each face. (PI. 79, 6.) 
There was no indication of a burial and no worked object of any 
sort that had been intentionally deposited. 
Tuer ALexanperR Mounp 
On the farm of J. S. Alexander, 8 miles southeast of Moulton, 
in Lawrence County, was a mound 614 feet high and a little more 
