FOWKB] MOUNDS IN PIKE COUNTY, OHIO 501 
together as hard as mortar. Resting on the northern edge of this 
was the left arm of a skeleton, extended, head east. A foot north 
of this skeleton lay another, parallel with it; and 2 feet farther 
north a third, both of the latter much decayed. Near the skull of 
the last was the skeleton of an infant. A fire bed was at the heads 
and one at the feet of these skeletons. North of them was another 
over 6 feet across, the ashes and burned earth each nearly 4 inches 
thick. The charcoal layer came to the natural surface again at 14 
feet from where it was first encountered. 
Mounp 9.—This mound was 13 feet high and somewhat more than 
100 feet across at the base; but as it had been much plowed down its 
real diameter was probably 75 or 80 feet. A trench 10 feet wide was 
begun at 35 feet out from center, on the south side; the bottom of 
the slope was 18 or 20 feet farther out. The material composing 
most of the mound was sand from the ridge of glacial material lying 
near by, on the north; there was some clay in it, but no gravel. For 
the first 2 feet it was easy to remove; below that, it was extremely 
compact, requiring constant use of the pick. It was like working in 
sandstone; with two days of steady use, the steel point would be 
worn off of the pick down to the iron. 
At 20 feet out from center were five holes nearly in a straight line 
across the trench. Measuring from the western one, which was just 
in the corner, being partly under the west wall and the face, the dis- 
tances to the centers of the others were 314, 5, 8, and 914 feet. They 
were about 8 inches across and from 21% to 3 feet deep. A few frag- 
ments of bones were in the west one, a little charcoal in the east and 
middle ones, nothing in the others but very loose, ight, dry, dark 
earth. 
A peculiar feature about this mound was a streaked appearance of 
the sand which was first noticed about 30 feet out. The streaks were 
darker in color and harder than the rest of the sand, and very tor- 
tuous, though the general direction was practically horizontal. None 
were over an inch thick and they were apparently due to segregation 
of some constituent after the sand had settled. In many cases they 
inclosed or surrounded the lenticular masses of dumped material. 
At 20 feet out they were about 514 feet below the top of the mound; 
toward the center they were a little nearer the top; and they grad- 
ually increased in number and distinctness down to the original 
surface. 
At 24 feet out was a trench which extended to the depth of a foot 
into the yellow subsoil. This was dug before the mound was built, 
as the sand goes to the bottom of it, although none of it has settled 
into the holes mentioned above. This would indicate that the latter 
were for posts and that the ditch or trench was made to carry away 
