THE POLANDER GROUP. 



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the same slope as the jireeedins and, like it, had an excavation in the 

 original surface of the gruund, but much smaller, the length being only 

 4 feet, the width a little less, and the depth 1 foot. A foot from the top, 

 near the center of the mound, lay a bundled skeleton, apparently an 

 intrusive burial. Notliing was discovered in the pit except what were 

 supposed to be decayed remains of two bundled skeletons. 



Mound 8, one of the smaller tumuli of the group, presented some 

 marked variations from those described. The diameter was scarcely 

 20 feet and height '■'> feet, lu the central portion, 2 feet distant from 

 each other, were two stone graves, oval in outliue, eachS.i feet long by 

 3 feet wide, built up of cobblestones, and had probably been closed 

 over dome-fashion at the top, though this portion had apparently fallen 

 in. Over these, covering the tops about G inches and filling the spaces 

 between and each side of them, was a layer of surface soil, and cover- 

 ing this a single layer of loose sandstones about 6 inches thick. In 

 one grave were two bundled skeletons ; in the other, three. 



FiQ. 30.— Mounil No. :) (section), Polander group, Crawford county, Wis. 



Mound 6, circular, 23 feet in diameter and 3 feet high, was con- 

 structed as follows: Commencing at the top, there was first a layer, 2 

 inches thick, of vegetable mold, then a foot of surface soil ; next a sin- 

 gle layer of rough stones of various sizes ; next a layer of earth 1 foot 

 thick. Immediately under the layer of stones, nearly in the center of 

 the mound, were two folded or bundled skeletons, lying on some loose 

 stones. These stones were found to be part of a wall lining a pit in 

 the original soil. This pit was 4 feet long by 3 feet broad between the 

 walls, which were of a single thickness of cobblestones, the sides 

 somewhat flaring, the corners nearly square, 18 inches deep, and sides 

 lined entirely around with stones. Lying on the bottom were the skele- 

 tons of three adults and one child, all folded. 



In mound No. 1 nothing was found save three good-sized stones. In 

 No. 17 were three folded skeletons. In 29 there was a pile of stones 

 somewhat in the form of an inverted cone, measuring 10 feet across the 

 upturned base and tapering to a itoint at the depth of 3 feet; a few 

 coals lay on the upper surface. At the bottom of the mound, on the 

 original surface of the ground, were a copper drill and an arrow point. 



Trenches were cut across the long mounds, but nothing observed, 

 except that they were formed of loose surface soil. 



No. 4 measured 26 feet in diameter and 3 feet high. In the center 

 was a kind of vault formed by a circular stone wall (i feet in diameter 

 from outside to outside, and 4 feet inside, built in a pit dug in theorig- 



