276 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Mound G, like mound 4, was on tbe supposed line of embankment. 

 No trace of wood in the mound or of a ditch outside could be seen. It 

 was formed of dirt gathered dose around. Probably mounds 4 and 6 

 were at a break in the embankment forming a passageway through it. 



Mound 7 showed at 55 feet east of the center a layer of gray clay, 

 nowhere more than an inch in thickness, which ran IS feet, then gave 

 way for 9 feet to a layer of black soil, after which it reappeared and was 

 found under all the remaining part excavated. The dirt showed the 

 same marks of dumjjingasin mounds 1 and 3, and is of different colors, 

 though all from around the mound. More charcoal and burnt dirt was 

 found in this than in any other mound opened, but it seems to have been 

 thrown in simply because it was convenient, being scattered here and 

 there in small patches. 



Thirty-five feet from the center and 3 feet from the surface in mingled 

 ashes, dirt, and charcoal, with a few decayed bones, were a number of 

 fragments of pottery, pieces of one vessel which was broken before 

 being covered. The whole was inclosed in very hard clay. It does not 

 seem to have been a grave, but rather a place used for cooking. 



Twenty-one feet from the center and 5 ieet from the surface was a 

 tibia lying east and west; 5 feet west of it was a skull. Both were too 

 soft to be removed. No bones were found between them, but both 

 belonged to one individual whose body had been jilaced in abed of gray 

 sand and surrounded by ashes, charcoal, swamp mud, and burnt clay. 

 It seems to have been an intrusive burial. Two feet southwest of the 

 skull was a decayed femnr; no other bones were with it. 



All the dirt about the center of this mound was very wet and heavy, 

 and was brought from the swamp to the northeast. The arrangement 

 and material of the mound show that dirt had been carried in from 

 different places at the same time. Occasionally a layer of one material 

 could be traced 3 or i feet, and then be lost in some other. 



Mound 8 was built partly on the slope of the ravine to the west. A 

 layer of gray day, averaging 4 indies in thickness, had been spread on 

 the surface and the mound built upon it. The bottom of the mound on 

 the western side sloped upward toward the center, following the inclina- 

 tion of the surface. Twenty-four feet from the center began a deposit 

 of sticky mud fi-om the creek bottom, which measured 2 feet in thii'k- 

 ness at the center. The remiiinder of the mound was composed of about 

 equal parts of this bottom mud and the soil near by. dumped in without 

 any order or regularity. At the center, near the top of the mound, was 

 a deposit of yellow sand 3 feet across in very tliin curved layers, about 

 4 inches thick at the middle and curving to an edge at the sides. 

 Under this was a hole a foot across and the same in depth, having a 

 bottom of hard blue clay and filled with ashes, black dirt, and charcoal. 



Near the center were some shreds of a coarse woven doth. Six feet 

 north of the center, in the original soil, was a hole 18 inches across and 

 14 inches deep, the sides burnt hard as brick, filled with charcoal and 



