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white ineu, nearly a ceutuiy aud a half ago. Commingled with these 

 relics, at a depth of from 2 to 4 feet, were found several medium-sized 

 skeletons in various stages of decay. All were lying extended on the 

 Ijack or side, but in no regular order in respect to each other or the 

 points of the compass. With some of these were quite a number of 

 large beads (proliably used as rattles), made by cutting short sections 

 of the leg bones of small animals and bones of birds. These, one bone 

 fishhook, and several bone bodkins, found near the surface, are but 

 slightly decayed, and are probably the work of Indians. 



ROCK WALL. 



Between the Kanawha river and a liranch of Paint creek is a high, 

 irregular ridge, something more thau 1,000 feet above the village of 

 Clifton, The end near the village widens out suddenly in the form of 

 a short paddle. The comi)aratively level top, surrounded on all sides 

 by steep bluffs, offered a position easily defended. The more sloping- 

 front, which was the only assailable point, was defended by a stoue 

 wall running along the brow from the eastern to the western bluff, 

 a distance of 2(i(i j)aces, or nearly 800 feet. As but little of it is now 

 standing, its original dimensions can not be accurately determined; 

 but judging by the quantity of flat stones still in place and strewn 

 along the hillside below the wall, and the statements of i)ersons who 

 saw it when but little injured, it must have been at least 5 or C feet 

 high and constructed like an ordinary stone fence. There is no trace 

 of a gateway in it, nor are there any indications that a wall ever existed 

 across the narrow neck behind the paddle-shaped expansion. 



BROWNSTOWN WORKS. 



On the site of this village, just below the point where Len's creek enters 

 the Kanawha, are traces of an ancient earthen iuclosure. Being more 

 or less covered with dwellings and other structures and almost entirely 

 worn away, it was impossible to trace the wall with sufficient accuracy 

 to plat it, but it probably inclosed some <l or 8 acres. It is said that a 

 part of it was utilized for defense by the early white settlers. In the 

 streets and gardens and in the washed bank of the river numerous 

 relics have been found similar to those observed at Clifton. It is also 

 said that certain brass ornaments have been discovered here associated 

 with stone implements and decayed human bones, but none of these 

 were seen. 



len's creek mouxds. 



There are a number of mounds in the deep valley of this creek, of 

 which one only was opened, and this because of its peculiar situation, 

 being located where the valley is so narrow as scarcely to allow a road- 

 way between the creek and the bluff. Although scarcely 20 feet in 

 diameter at the base and fully 7 feet high, and otherwise peculiarly 



