118 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



BROWN COUNTY. 



THE WELCH GROUl". 



This group, of which a plan is given in Fig. 58, is on the farm of Mr, 

 Edward Welch, 3 miles west of Perry Springs station, Wabash and 



St. Louis Eailroad, on a 



^ narrow ridge some 200 



^ feet above the bottom 



^^ lauds. It consists of six 



mounds (Nos. 1 to 6 in the 

 plan), and a number of 

 small saucer-shaped ba- 

 sins surrounded by low, 

 earthen ridges, doubtless 

 the sites of ancient dwell- 

 ings or wigwams. The 

 latter are indicated on the 

 l)lan by small circles. 



Mound No. 2, about 100 

 feet in diameter and 8 feet 

 high, had a very marked 

 depression in the top. A 

 pit G feet square carried 

 down to the natural sur- 

 face brought to light three 

 Are beds at different 

 depths. Numerous frag- 

 ments of pottery, stone 

 chips, pieces of sand- 

 stone, which had been 

 used as tool-sharpeners, 

 and a flat sandstone 

 nearly 2 feet square, on 

 one side of which were sev- 

 eral long, deei) grooves, 

 ^^ probably made in sharj)- 



ening tools, were also 

 found. 



No. 6 was also opened, 



but only disclosed the 



•' ^ ^«ff " ****"' T^ fact that it consisted of 



an outer layer of soil 1 

 foot thick and the remainder, soil, clay, stone chips, and fragments of 

 pottery commingled. 



As the land was in wheat at the time of examination, permission to 

 nuike further excavations in the mounds was reflised. 



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