FOWKB] MOUNDS IN PIKE COUNTY, OHIO 499 
30 feet long, formed by throwing in a pile of large stones at random 
and covering them more carefully with a layer of smaller stones. 
Tt is 20 feet wide at the base and 3 feet high. 
A 10-foot trench was carried into the mound from the north side. 
At 25 feet from center, the mound being 65 feet in diameter, large 
rocks appeared on the bottom, and increased in numbers until at 8 feet 
north of the center they were 4 feet deep. At this point began a 
layer of rotten wood and ashes. Two feet within this was a skeleton, 
folded. At the center was another, extended, on the back, head south- 
east. All the space between these two and for 4 feet beyond the last 
was filled with a mass of decayed bone from 6 to 7 feet wide. These 
were the remains of skeleton burials; the water soaking into them and 
the weight of the rock resting on them had reduced the whole to the 
consistency of mud or wet ashes, so it was impossible to tell how many 
had been placed here; but it was evidently a communal burial, made 
in this manner: Over a space 16 feet long and more than 10 feet wide 
was spread a layer of wood or bark; ashes had been sprinkled on 
this and a pile or layer of skeletons placed on the ashes, with a body 
at the north edge and one at the center of the mass. This was covered 
with earth, about which was placed a shelter or protection of wood. 
A mound of rocks was next built over the remains to a height of 4 
feet and a diameter of 40 feet. On top of these 4 or 5 feet of earth 
had been piled; as the mound had been plowed a number of times 
its exact altitude is uncertain. 
On top of the hill on which Mounds 4 and 5 are located cup stones 
are numerous; 40 or 50 were found. Several had been thrown in 
with the stone pile in Mound 5; so they could not have been highly 
valued. 
NEAR WAVERLY 
Mounp 6.—This is a mile and a half south of Waverly, on the 
Piketon road. It has been plowed over for three generations, leav- 
ing it less than 4 feet high and 90 feet across; the original diameter 
was about 50 feet. It seems to have been built by several parties 
working from different places at the same time; for the dark sand, 
reddish sand, clay, and black muck entering into its composition are 
mingled in confusion in some places and form irregular masses in 
others. At 14 feet out, 30 inches up, were traces of a skeleton, ex- 
tended, head east. At 514 feet out, in a very hard black sandy muck, 
was a skeleton, extended, head west. It was not more than 5 feet 
long, but the bones were unusually large and solid. A third skeleton 
was lying near the center. All these bones were so decayed that they 
could not be removed. Near the center was an ash bed 414 feet 
across; the earth under part of it was burned red and hard. Un- 
consumed ends of poles and logs were in the earth around it. 
