FOWKE | EARTHWORKS IN KENTUCKY 493 
ently wanted the wall along that line. No trace of palisades or struc- 
ture of any sort appeared. Beneath the center of the embankment 
was a barbecue hole 3 feet across and a foot deeper than the natural 
surface, filled with burned earth and stones. It had been abandoned 
before the wall was begun. At present the inclosure forms three 
sides of a rectangle, open toward the river, with the two angles 
rounded. Lewis shows a fourth wall along the margin of the terrace, 
but it can not now be seen. The length of the three sides, altogether, 
is about 700 feet. 
Between the “Old Fort” and the river Squier and Davis show 
three small mounds; Lewis notes only two. The one he omits has 
been leveled and a dwelling stands on the site. The others are much 
reduced by plowing, the larger being 2 feet high with indeterminate 
outline. A circle 15 feet across was laid off around its highest part 
and all the earth within this removed into the subsoil. At the bot- 
tom was soft mud on hardpan. A shallow depression at the middle, 
filled with grayish earth, seemed to be a grave but there was no trace 
of bone nor any object which would indicate that a body had been 
placed here. Some burned earth and rocks were on the surface. 
Several mounds are on the high terrace below the “Old Fort.” 
Permission could be obtained for opening only one of these. It is 
the most western of the group, on the line between Greenup and 
Lewis Counties, and was about 3 feet high, though much worked 
down. The owner had plowed out two skeletons, of medium-sized in- 
dividuals with very thick skulls. A circle with a radius of 10 feet 
was laid out on top and all the included earth removed. On the east 
side, a foot from the bottom, was a skeleton, and at the original 
surface, on the west side, another, both with heads toward the east; 
the bones were decayed and had partly disappeared. Fully two 
wagonloads of rough stones weighing from 10 to 50 pounds, carried 
trom the hills half a mile away, were in the excavated area, appar- 
ently thrown in at random. Three implements were found loose in 
the earth, all of them but little altered from their natural form of 
fine-grained, waterworn sandstone, river gravel. One was an angular 
fragment with several deep, curved grooves from use as a grinder 
and polisher; one was rudely triangular in form’ with the small end 
polished by use and a deep groove cut diagonally across one face for 
holding a handle; the third, a thin flat slab with a polished sharp 
edge, used as a hide dresser. At the center was a grave dug 6 or 
8 inches into the yellow clay. No trace of bone remained in it or 
worked object of any sort. 
All the small mounds in this territory have been examined more 
or less by local collectors; they yielded nothing of any moment. 
