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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 



eastern one, are numbered 1, 2, and 3; those at the north, 4, 5, and 6. 

 The first five lay nearly east and west; No. 6 was north and south. 



Gravel, 7 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 30 inches deep at the head, con- 

 tained faint traces of a human skeleton. 



Grave 2: The head of this was near the foot of No. 1, in a line with 

 it, and similar in form and size. With the decayed skeleton in this 

 grave were two small hematite celts, four small flint knives, and one 

 lance head. 



Grave 3, with head close to and in line with No. 2, was similar to It 

 in size and construction. Only faint traces of a skeleton. 

 Grave i was like No. 5 in size and appearance. 



Grave 5 : A fine cist, 6 J feet 

 long, 2J feet wide, and 2 feet 

 deep, having a smooth stone 

 slab at bottom. At the east- 

 ern end of the grave, in one 

 corner., near the head of the 

 greatly decayed skeleton, 

 were twenty-two entire and 

 a number of broken flint- 

 flake knives. 



Grave 6, like No. 5 in con- 

 struction, contained only 

 traces of a small skeleton, 

 probably a female. 



In each of these six graves 

 were two waterworn bowl- 

 ders fi'om 6 to 8 inches in di- 

 ameter, placed together near 

 the middle of tlie grave, al- 

 ways transverse to its longer 

 axis; those in No. 6 were 

 about 12 inches in their 

 longest diameter. 



These graves and also the 



caches noted appear, from 



their positions in reference to the inclosure, to be due to people who 



occupied this locality subsequent to its abandonment by the authors 



of the works found here. 



Inclosure H, 405 feet east of the great mound No. 31, is 264 feet long 

 and 132 feet wide, lying northwest and southeast like L, which it 

 closely resembles in all respects. Many heavy flat rocks, probably 

 parts of stone cists, were observed, but no complete cist was found. 



Inclosure I (shown on an enlarged scale in Fig. 295) lies a little 

 north of west from the large mound (31), is circular in form," measuring 

 018 feet around the top or middle of the embankment, which is much 

 worn away, being only about 2 foet high from the ditch inside. 



Fic. 205.— Inclosure I, Kanawha county, Weat Virginia. 



