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Inclosnre L is on the Cabell farm, about 1 mile directly west of inclos- 

 ure H, which it resembles in every respect, except that it is slightly 

 larger. The form and proportions are shown in Fig. 29G, froni Mr. 

 Middleton's survey, the length being 287 feet and width 150 feet, meas- 

 uring from center to center of the embankment. The walls are rather 

 less than 2 feet high and the ditch inside about 2 feet deep. 



Inclosure K, shown in Fig. 297, consists of two parallel or concen- 

 tric circular embankments with a ditch between them. The diameter 

 of the outer wall, measuring from the middle on one side to the middle 

 ou the other side, is 295 feet, the diameter of the inner wall 212, the 

 width of the walls being about 20 feet, and the width of the ditch the 

 same. Theinnerwall 

 is almost obliterated 

 by cultivation, but 

 the outer one is still 

 from 1 to 2 feet high. 

 The ditch is still 

 about 2 feet deep. 

 There is a broad gate 

 way on the n orth west 

 through the outer 

 wall and ditch, but 

 th e inner ci rcular 

 embankment seems 

 to have been un- 

 broken. 



Mound 15, 540 feet 

 west of the northern 

 end of inclosure G, 

 circular in form, 

 measured 65 feet in 

 diameter and 5 feet 

 in height. A consid- 

 erable portion had 

 been plowed off. In 

 the top was a basin- 

 shaped fire-bed 7 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 16 inches deep at the center. 

 This was lined with a mixture of clay and ashes burned to a brick red 

 on the upper surface, but the under side had a black, greasy appear- 

 ance. Below this was a similar bed, on and about which were numer- 

 ous small fragments of bones, too much broken and charred to show 

 whether they were human or animal. 



Mound 16, 480 feet soiitheastof mound 15, is conical in form, meas- 

 uring 30 feet in diameter, and 2i feet high. It was composed chiefly of 

 hard clay. Kear the center, on the original surface, were the decayed 

 fragments of a skeleton and with them a single gorget of striped slate. 



Mound 17 is 1,826 feet nearly west of mound 15. It is now only 18 



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Fig. 296.— Inclosure L, Kanawha ronnty, "West Virginia. 



