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MOUND EXPLORATIONS. 





inches high aud 20 feet in diameter. Its surface and the surface around 

 it were strewn with stone chips, fi-agnients of pottery, and Lmce and 

 arrowheads. Stone chips and arrowheads were scattered through the 

 hard earth of which it was composed, and a few decayed bones lay at 

 the bottom near the center. 



Mound 18, which stands 270 feet west of mound 17, measures 6.5 feet 

 in diameter and 4i feet high. This, like many of the other mounds, 

 has been worked over until the earth has been removed down to the 

 hard central core of brick-red clay. It is said that in plowing this 

 away many relics of stone, bone, and shell were found. A series of 



basin - shaped fire 

 beds, similar to 

 those in mound 15, 

 were lying one be- 

 low another in the 

 central portion. 

 Below them, nesir 

 the bottom of the 

 moiind, was a con- 

 siderable bed of 

 charcoal and ashes, 

 and immediately 

 under this, on the 

 original surface of 

 the ground, the 

 fragments of a 

 skeleton, and a 

 number of broken 

 arrow and spear 

 heads. 



Passing north- 

 ward across the 

 raili'oad from this 

 group over a strip 

 of rather low 

 ground we reach a 

 small terrace, where there is another interesting group. 



Mound 19, the one farthest to the east, is 00 feet in diameter and 5 

 feet high. It was found to contain a rude vault of angular stones, 

 some of them as much as two men could lift. This had been built on 

 the natural surface and was 8 feet long, 4 wide, and 3 high, but con- 

 tained only the decaying fragments of a large skeleton aud a few frag- 

 ments of pottery. 



Mound 20, a short distance southwest of the preceding and nearei 

 the large tumulus (Mound 21), measured 30 feet in diameter and 2^ 







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Fig. 297.— Inclosure K, Kanawba county, "West Virginia. 



