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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



Around and partly over tlii.s skeleton, with their heads near his, 

 ■were nine others. Under the heads of two of these skeletons, lying 

 within a foot of the head of the first, were also several engraved shells, 

 one of which is shown in Fig. 1314. Scattered over and among the 

 bones of these ten or more skeletons were numerous polished celts, 

 discoidal stones, copper arrow points, pieces of mica, lumps of paint, 

 black lead, stone pipes, etc. Some of the forms of the pipes from this 

 and the other burial places in this locality are shown in Figs. 215-220. 



Fl<i. 213.— Eu^raveil .shfU. Xdsoii li-iiiiigle. 



THE W. DAVKNFOKT .loNES .MlU'N'I). 



Two miles east of Patterson, near the north baidc of the Yadkin 

 river, running out from a low ridge to the river bank, is a natural ter- 

 race about 12 feet high, with a level area of about au acre on top, and 

 sloping on the sides at an angle of 45 degrees, on which, according to 

 tradition, there was formerly an Indian village. About 200 yards east 

 of this, on the second river bottom or terrace, there was a low, circular 

 mound 32 feet in diameter and not more thau 1 foot high, on the land 

 of Mr. W. Davenport Jones. This mound was found upon investiga. 

 tion to cover a circular pit of the same diameter and -i feet deep, the 

 margin and bottom being so well defined as to leave no doubt as to the 



