MOUNDS OF CALHOUN COUNTY. 



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In these, e is the surface sod, 2 inches thick; the remainder,/, down 

 to the natural ground, consisted of yellow clay taken from the top of 

 the ridge; g-<i, the line of the original surface; Xos. 1 to 10 skeletons, h, 

 a small fire bed, and A-, a flat stone resting on it. Skeleton 1, (! inches 

 below the sod, lay at full length, face up, head south ; 2 and 3, at full 

 length, faces up, heads northeast, at the depth of 10 inches; 4, on the 

 original surface of the ridge, stretched out, head northwest, face toward 

 the river. The bones in this case were more decayed than those fur- 

 ther up in the mound ; and near by was the fire bed, 7( also on the 

 original sm-face. This was small, measuring but 2 feet in diameter, 



Fig. C2.— Vertical section of Moun.l Xo. «. XE. J Sec. .'il, T. 10, R 



and not more than 2 inches thick ; it was covered by a flat stone, fe, 

 which bore no indications of fire. !No. 5, a skeleton at the depth of 9 

 inches, face up, head southwest; 6, at the depth of 15 inches, head 

 southwest, face down, an unusual position; 7, at a depth of 3 feet, 

 bones in a heap with the skull on top, the heap resting on the natural 

 surface. No 8, but 3 inches below the sod, at full length, tace up, head 

 southwest; and 10, at the depth of 10 inches, heads northeast. 



Most of the burials in this mound seem to have been intrusive or 

 made at different periods. A few shell beads with skeleton No. 1 were 

 the only relics found. 



Fig. 6:).— Vertical aection nf mouurt on SE. J Sec, 15, T. 10, E. 2 W., lUinnis. 



Mounds 2 and 5 were constructed much like No. 1; the former con- 

 taining no skeletons; the latter, which had been partially opened be- 

 fore, containing several skeletons, three of which remained. These 

 were intrusive, all at full length, faces up. 



Mound 6 was similar in construction to the preceding. Under the 

 northern end and resting on the natural surface of the ridge was a 

 fire bed some G inches thick and 3 feet in diameter, of charcoal, ashes, 

 and burned human bones. Judging by all the indications Mr. Middle- 

 ton, the explorer, concluded that the body or skeleton of a medium- 

 sized person had been placed on the surface of the ridge, face up, head 



