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zontally with a thread or fine wire. The right arm and hand lay 
by the side; the left hand was under the pelvic bones of the other 
skeleton, which lay north of the first, almost against the edge of the 
grave. This was of a man about 6 feet tall, evidently young, as 
the teeth were only slightly worn; they were white, smooth, and 
hard, but five or six of them were beginning to show marks of decay. 
The left hand was lying on the pelvis; the right arm across the middle 
of the body. 
The man’s skull was somewhat damaged by pressure of the earth. 
The other skull was perfect and very solid. It lay in a mass of 
ashes 6 inches thick, the western extension of the ash bed noted 
before the grave was reached. They extended on to the north, 
around both skulls, the man’s lying at their margin. The ashes 
had been carried here after the bodies were placed; they contained 
fragments of charred bones. The sand composing the mound dipped 
into so much of the grave as was not filled with the black earth. 
At the center, 214 feet higher than the original surface, were frag- 
ments of a badly decayed skull; it lay to the east of the feet of the 
bottom skeletons. Traces of bone, soft from decay, occurred east- 
ward from it to the side of the trench. They were apparently of 
an adult who had been buried parallel with those below it. 
No worked objects of any sort were found with any of the skele- 
tons. At 5 feet north of the center, 514 feet above the bottom, ly- 
ing loose in the earth, was a bracelet, elliptical in shape, made from 
a copper rod as large as a small lead pencil, the ends being cut or 
rubbed square and brought into close contact. 
It is apparent that a building of some kind stood on the site 
of this mound, as the holes and the black layer of ashes, earth, 
and charcoal could not have remained intact unless protected from 
the weather. A fire had been built and most of the ashes placed 
in a receptacle until needed. The grave was dug, the earth from 
it being thrown out over such ashes as were left on the ground. 
Then ashes were sprinkled very thinly on the bottom of the grave, 
bark laid down, and the bodies put in. The ashes gathered up were 
piled along the right side of the body at the center, the greatest 
thickness being about the head. They were continued to the west 
end of the grave, north to a point north of the other head, but 
not touching it, and also spread south to meet those not removed 
from the fire bed. Next, loose black earth was carried, probably 
from a swampy place in the creek bottom, and piled over the bodies 
as high as it could conveniently be lifted. After this the mound 
was erected. The upper skeleton at the center had been placed there 
after the black earth was deposited. 
Years before this exploration a shaft had been sunk from the 
top of the mound by relic hunters. They came within 2 inches of 
