THOMAS. 1 



MOUNDS OF DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA. 



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nothing peculiar was observed in this group, except the arrangement 

 of the mounds, which is shown in the sketch. Nos. 34, .35, .30, and 37 



are four oblong mounds, vary- 

 ing in length from 40 to 110 

 feet, and from IJ to 4 feet in 

 height. The inner portions 

 were found to be of hard, com- 

 pact earth, as is usual in this 

 region. 



EAGLE POINT GROUP. 



This group is about 3 miles 

 above Dubuque on the bluifs 

 and terrace fronting the Mis- 

 sissipj)i. The larger number 

 of the mounds — about 70 — 

 all of which, except two ob- 

 long ones, are small and con- 

 ical, are on a level terrace 

 about 50 feet above high- 

 water mark. On a bluff im- 

 mediately west of these is a 

 single embankment or mound 

 about 300 feet long, 20 feet 

 broad, and 3 feet high; and 

 on Eagle point proper, imme- . 

 diately north, which is the 

 point of a bluff some 200 feet 

 high overlooking the river, 

 are several low circular and 

 two long mounds and a stone 

 cairn. 



Eleven of the small circular 

 mounds on the terrace were 

 opened thoroughly, but noth- 

 ing found in them except 

 some charcoal, stone chips, 

 and fi'agments of pottery. 

 In an excavation made in the center of the long mound on the west- 

 ern bluff two decayed skeletons were found. Near the breast of one of 

 them were a blue stone gorget (shown in Fig. 52) and five rude stone 

 scrapers; with the other, thirty-one fresh- water peai'ls, perforated and 

 used as beads. 



An excavation was made in one of the long mounds on the point, and 

 also in one of the circular ones. Both were found to be composed of a 



Fig. 51. — Group near Peru, Dubuque county, Iowa. 



