STONE GRAVES ON HALE's PLACE. 



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16. It also contained the well-preserved skeleton of aii adult, the skull 

 of which was secured. 



No. 20, near the surface was (5 feet long and 16 inches wide at the 

 head. This grave contained two skeletons the bones of which were 

 very well in'cserved; they were lying side by side, the head of one a 

 few inches nearer the end than that of the other. A quantity of red 

 paint had been deposited near the chin of the one nearest the end while 

 some flat, circular l)eads, made of mussel shells, placed between their 

 breasts. 



Fio. 77. — Slvull from iiioiind on Ilale's place (sido view). 



From about the foot of grave No. 20, trench No. 1 was carried through 

 a kitchen heap consisting of an immense number of flint chips, showing 

 charcoal, burned limestone, broken bones of animals, broken pottery, 

 etc. This was 2i feet deep here and rested on yellow clay. In a pros- 

 pect hole sunk just west of the foot of grave No. 20, the clay proved 

 to be only a layer less than a foot thick, resting on a layer of pure (char- 

 coal. There were no flints in either of these layers, but some broken 

 bones, deer horns, and ijotterj' were found in the charcoal stratum. A 

 short distance west of this prospect hole, about 18 inches below the sur- 

 face, the trench cut through some human bones that were not inclosed 



