326 MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Skek'toii No. 5 lay about 23 feet west of the ceuter, almost on the 

 black luokl at the bottom, and near its head were found a pipe (N. M. 

 135217), representing the head of an owl (Fig. 205); one 

 decayed shell ornament, three stone celts, five discoidal 

 stones, an anomalous stone implement, and a lump of 

 glauconite. The apparent remains of another human 

 burial were seen to the east of the hearth (skeleton No. 

 6), and near the teeth was discovered a well shaped stone 



Fk;. 2(16,— Fragment CClt. 



Hoil'vwoodnioun™ A i)ipe (N. M. 135225) was found in tlie earth two feet 



Georgia. fp flic soutli of hcartli B. 



The piece of blue porcelain (N. M. 135279) shown in Fig. 206 was 

 found 4 feet southwest of the center and (5 feet beneath the surface of 

 the mound. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 

 KERSHAW DISTRICT. 



Mcdowell mound no. i • 



The Wateree river is at present washing away the western end of a 

 large mound situated on its left bank on the McDowell farm, 4 miles 

 southwest from Camden, South Carolina. It is a large, oblong struc- 

 ture, which, after repeated plowings and floods is now reduced to 10 

 feet in height. Its major axis is 154 feet, and minor axis 115 feet. 

 Three smaller mounds are yet to be seen almost adjoining it on the 

 north and east, all of which it is said, were, formerly encircled by a low 

 earthen wall, no trace of which, however, is now visible. 



In exploring it a trench 10 to 15 feet wide and <J0 feet long was run 

 lengthwise through the mound in a northwest and southeast direction, 

 which was connected also with a north and south trench 15 feet wide, 

 coming from near its southern edge towards the center. 



This mound was not used as a place of Ijurial, the scattered frag- 

 ments of human bones that were found beiug rather accidentally 

 thrown up with the earth than remains of deliberate interments. The 

 investigation has not succeeded in demonstrating the use for which 

 it was constructed: possibly it was a domiciliary mound. 



Some fragmentary human bones, Unio shells, and the bones of deer 

 were found scattered indiscriminately here and there through the earth 

 at a depth of from 1 to 2 feet. They manifested but little sign of 

 decay. A foot and a half below the surface, 3 feet east of the center, 

 were the remains of a hearth or fire-bed about 9 feet in diameter. A 

 similar fire-bed 4 feet in diameter lay at the same depth 15 feet south of 

 the center. In the south trench, C feet from the center and 3 feet 

 deep, was a small fire-bed, alongside of which were small piles of shells 

 and charred corncobs. The molds left by four posts which had decayed 

 away were met with a short distance east of the center IJ feet below 



