THOMAS] MOUNDS ON ROUND POND. 159 



At a point between the upper iiud middle layers of clay, witli frag- 

 ments of pottery, pieces of bone and charcoal, was discoveied a piece 

 of charred wood. 



Mound b, about 450 feet east of a, of the form shown in the plat, is 

 190 feet long- by GG in width, and 5 feet high. Two pits were dug in 

 this and a few detached pieces of human bones found. 



Mound c is 100 feet in diameter and 9 feet high; d, a little smaller 

 and 6 feet high; e, about 150 feet in diameter and a little over 4 feet 

 high; / and g are circular excavations outside of the wall; the for- 

 mer 120 feet in diameter and 5 feet deejj; the latter with the longer 

 diameter 154 feet; depth, 7 feet. Excavations made in the bottom of 

 these indicate that they were artificially lined ^^'ith ai coating of stifi" 

 clay. At s is another sink, ai^parently artificial, but now partially 

 filled with mold of decaying vegetation, leaves, etc. 



The "hut rings" or small circular depressions surrounded l>y slight 

 earthen rings, indicated in Fig. 82 by little circles, are scattered irregax- 

 larly over the wooded portion of the inclosure, the number exceeding 

 100. They vary in diameter from 20 to 50 feet, and in depth from 1 to 

 3 feet aud are often but a few feet apart. 



MOUND ON KUNNING LAKE. 



Tliis mound, or rather remnant of a mound, is near Running lake in 

 the Southwestern part of Union county. A part of it had been removed 

 for filling purposes on the line of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, which 

 runs near it. It appears to have been about 9 feet high, and GO feet in 

 diameter and composed of sand, with the excejition of 2 feet of top soil. 

 At one point, about 2 feet below the surface, the leg bones of a single 

 individual were found ; no other bones were with them ; at another and 

 about the same depth were the bones of two feet and a deer's horn. 

 Some iiots and other implements were obtained from it by parties who 

 had i)reviously examined it. The parts of the skeleton found scattered 

 through the mound appear to havebe(^7i separated previous to burial. 



MOUNDS ON ROUND I'OND. 



These mounds are situated by the side of the public high-n-ay near 

 the Eeynolds place 2 miles from the Mississippi river aud on the bank 

 of a little lake known as Eound pond. Two of them are so close to- 

 gether that one appears partially to overlap the other as shown in the 

 accompanying sketch (Fig. 84j. 



No. 1 is 40 feet in diameter, G feet high, and of the usual conical form. 

 Two trenches near the uwddle carried do^^^l to the original surface 

 showed it to be composed entirely of sand excejit the top layer of soil 

 IJ feet thick, but no bones or remains of any kind were observed. 

 The toj) had been nearly covered with graves, but they were empty, 

 having been rifled of their contents by previous explorers. 



