THOMAS."! 



MOUND NO. 1. 



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with the fei't of one to the hciul of the other. Shells iiiul animal boues 

 were observed ; of the latter those of the deer were the most common. 

 Burnt clay and ashes were scattered through the earth, but not in beds. 



In the trench ((■ /') running through mouml h were also several skele- 

 tons, alUying horizontally, at full length, each with one or more earthen 

 vessels close by it; with one 

 there were four, two at the 

 knees and two at the head. In 

 one of the i)ots found in this 

 trench were a number of small 

 animal boues. At the depth of 

 2 feet was a bed of burnt clay 

 and immediately beneath it a 

 bed of charcoal and ashes, in 

 which was found a single clay 

 pipe. 



Mound No. 2 lies a few feet 

 north of No. 1, and is somewhat 

 oval in outline; north and south 

 diameter, 41 feet; east and west 

 diameter, 58 feet; and height, 

 n feet. It was covered with a 

 dense growth of cane, and a 

 large tree had grown on the top 

 near the center, but, having 



fallen, its trunk lay buried in r'«. 126.-Mound No. l, Taylor Sbauty group. 



the top of the mound and was covered with vegetable mold to the depth 

 of 2 inches. 



The construction of this mound as shown in Fig. 127, which repre- 

 sents an east and west cross section, is as follows, commencing at the 

 top: First, a top layer of soil, a, 3 inches thick; next, a layer of burnt 

 clay, b, 15 inches thick in the central portion and thinning out to the 

 margins, smooth on top, but rough beneath, with the usual indications 



Flu. 127.— Section of mound No. 2, Taylor Stianty group. 



of admixture with straw and twigs. Immediately under this was a 

 continuous layen of ashes and charcoal (c), equal in extent to the layer, 

 of burnt clay above it and a"bout 2 inches thick. The remains of partly 

 burned cane were found mixed through it; also fragments of pottery 

 and. burned stones. Under this were layers of burnt clay, e and /, 8 

 inches thick, placed as shown in the figure, with a thin layer of ashes 



