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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



No. 5, a circular pit 2 feet iu diameter aud 1' feet deep. This con- 

 tained a very large pot in wLicli were some animal bones. It was on 

 its side and crushed. 



No. G, a pit 2i feet deep and 2 feet square, with a bed of charcoal in 

 the bottom 6 inches deep. On this bed was a layer of flint chips, and 

 on the chips a quantity of broken pottery, animal bones, a discoidal 

 stone and a bone inii)lenient. 



No, 7, a grave similar to those described. 



No. 8, a large grave containing three skeletons lying at full length 

 upon the I'ight side, witli the heads a little east of north. These are 

 marked <i, h, c in the diagram. Between « and b, and iu front of the 

 face of a, was a mass of mussel shells; at the head and back of « were 

 a number of animal bones. Between a aud b, opposite the pelvis, was 

 a large broken pot. The right arm of c was extended forward and 

 upward, the left arm resting across the head, a white flint chip grasped 

 in the hand. The head of this skeleton was resting on a piece of a 

 broken i)ot, and in front of tlie face, at the distance of a foot, was also 

 part of a pot containing a stone fragment and some anim.al bones. 



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Fig. 224. — Clay hi-ai-th (or fire-bed), Wilkes county, North Carolina. 



Under the legs of the three skeletons, the head extended in front of 

 the legs of c, was the skeleton of a bear. In front of r were three 

 broken pots containing animal bones. 



No. 9, a basin-shaited flre-bed, or bed of burnt clay, 8 inches thick. 

 A section of this bed is shown in Fig. 224, h, h, b, the bed of burnt clay 

 and sand 8 inches thick, the material evidently placed here and not a 

 part of the original soil. The basin, a, was filled with ashes, the depth 

 being 12 inches, aud the diameter from I to 2, 2 feet 3 inches; from 1 to 

 3, and 2 to 4, each 1 foot and C inches. 



No. 10, a bed of mussel shells .'^ inches thick and 3 feet iu diameter, 

 lying on a flat bed of burnt earth •'! inches thick. 



No. 11, a pit .5 feet deep aud 3 feet in diameter, tilled with animal 

 bones, mussel shells, and broken pottery. 



There was no mound over any of these graves or the pit. 



HAYWOOD ('OrNI'\. 



An article in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland for June, 1882, in regard to some singular woi'ks of 



