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and corn, were mimerous fragments of pottery, some of which appar- 

 ently belonged to vessels broken at the time they were deposited. Six 

 feet north of the edge of this, at c, was another pit, much smaller, be- 

 ing only 3 feet in diameter and 3 deep. In this was a mass of decom- 

 posing shells, many of thcin still retaining their form, but crumbling 

 on exposure to the air. They consisted chiefly of small sea shells and 



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Fig. 294. — Inclosure G, Kanawha county, Weat Virginia. 



disks, all perforated, probably shell beads placed here for security in time 

 of danger. 



At the northern and southern ends of the inclosure, outside of the 

 walls, at the points 1 to 6, were six box-shaped stone graves, three at 

 each end. These were formed of large, angular slabs, brought from 

 the cliifs a fourth of a mile away. The covers of Nos. 1 and 3 had been 

 displaced by the plow. Those at the south end, beginning with the 



