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five somewliat singular arrow ijoiiits or drills, some of which are appar- 

 ently iiuflnished. No. !», somewhat isolated, lay north of those last men- 

 tioned, with head directly east; depth from the surface, 3 feet. Near 

 the northeast corner of the first pit, a stone wall, or rather a row of 

 stone slabs set on edge, was encountered, which furtiier investigation 

 and a thorough removal of the dirt sliowed to be an oval vault (see 

 Fig. 2()G) 10 feet long and 8 feet broad. This wall, comijoscd of slabs 

 of slate rock set on edge, 

 was about 1 foot high, the 

 top at the highest point 3 

 feet below the top of the 

 niouTid. The bottom was 

 completely covered with a 

 layer of slate slabs, as 

 closely fitted together as 

 the unworked edges would 

 admit of. Resting on this 

 floor were four skeletons, 



as shown in Fig. 2GG (Nos. 



10, 11, 12, and 13), the heads 



north and northeast. With 



skeleton No. 11 were some 



fragments of copiier-stained 



wood and some pieces of 



mica. Skeleton No. 14, out- 

 side of the vault, lay with 



the head northeast. 



Mounds 7, 8, and really 



form a separate group and 



probably, as above stated, 



mark the site of a village 



distinct from the one on the 



east of Toco creek. Nos. 7 



and 8 are on a terrace some 



25 feet above the water 



level, but No. 9, as before ' 



remarked, is in a swale 



drained by the little rivulet 



known as Swamp creek. 



All are of small size. 



Nos. 7 and 8 consisted chiefiy of yellowish sandy soil from the ad- 

 jacent surface; for the first 2 feet from the top this was packed so hard 



as to require the use of a pick. In No. 8, at a depth of 2^ feet, lay the 



skeleton of a child in the last stage of decay; about the head were 



several shell beads. Mound No. 9, similar in coustructioii, contained 



four skeletons lying at a depth of 5i feet, and very nearly in the center 



Fii{. 268 Water vessel, Callaway m 



