THOJIAS.] 



WHITE S GROUP. 



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111 No. 7, 25 feet in diameter aud 3 feet liigb, nothing was discovered 

 save a single skeleton near the northern edge, a foot below the surface, 

 and a few fragments of pottery near the head. 



No. 8, diameter, C5 feet ; height, 6 feet ; unstratitied ; disclosed 

 nothing. 



No. 0, diameter, 60 feet; height, i) feet; unstratitied ; contained 

 nothing worthy of notice. 



Fia. a?.— Copiier plate from Mound No. 6, Whltu's group (No. 8833ii. National Museum). 



No. 10, 50 feet in diameter and 4^ feet high. A vertical section 

 of this mound is shown in Fig. 38. The top layer, li feet thick, consisted 

 of black, loose, sandy loam similar to the surrounding soil of the field. 

 Six skeletons were lying in this near the center, some folded, others 

 stretched at full length, heads in different directions. The next or 

 lower layer, 3 feet thick, and extending downward slightly below the 

 original surface, consisted of red clay very largely mixed with sand. 

 Skeletous were found in this at various depths. A little south of the 

 center the original soil, below layer No. 2, had been hollowed out to the 



Fig. 38._Seetion of Mound No. 10, Wliite's group. 



gravel. This excavation was about 7 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 1 foot 

 deep. In it were the remains of a single adult skeleton, stretched at 

 full length, face up, and covered with a layer of hard black muck. The 

 bones were nearly all gone, but their forms and positions could be 

 traced. Under the skull was a fine lance head, and about 2 feet south, 

 in the same excavation, a magnificent chipped implement of obsidian, 

 represented in Fig. 39. 

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