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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



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truncated mound. The platform averages throughout about 15 feet 

 high, the diameter of the smaller end being about 200 feet and of the 

 larger 338 feet. The mound rises about 20 feet above the platform or 

 terrace and is flat on top, its larger diameter here being 108 feet. 



The whole is entirely surround- 

 ed, as shown in the figure, by 

 a ditcli varying in depth from 10 

 to 15 feet and in width from 50 

 to 75 feet. 



Excavations made at points 

 on the summit and sides, both 

 of the mound proper and plat- 

 form, brought to light patches 

 or beds of clay burnt to a brick 

 red. 



Roger's moinds 



This is the name given to a 

 group a mile distant from the 

 Barney mound, just described. 

 The mounds are all of the ordi- 

 nary conical or oval form, except 

 the largest one of the group, 

 which is flat on top and sur- 

 mounted near one end by an- 

 other small hemispherical 

 mound, as shown in Fig. 146. 

 This is oval in outline, the 

 longer diameter (at the base) 

 247 feet, and the shorter nearly 

 200 feet ; height of the platform 

 or terrace 20 feet, the longer 

 diameter on the toj) 150 feet,and 

 the shorter 90. The little mound 

 on the top is about 50 feet in 

 diameter, 5 feet high, and round- 

 ed oft' in the ordinary form. On 

 the terrace are the ruins of a 

 modern house and barn overgrown by biush and small trees. A very 

 heavy (ire-bed was found immediatelj' below the surface of the upjier 

 mound ; others were also found at various points on the terrace and on 

 the sides of the main mound. • 



Near the surface of another mound, the next in size, was a bed 

 of clay burned to a brick red, and so hard that it could not be cut 

 with a spade, but had to be undermined and taken out in blocks like 

 irregular bricks. A i)ortiou of this was removed and an excavation 



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