440 MOTTND EXPLORATIONS. 



coal and aslies. This older mound or central core was 4 feet high and 

 20 feet in diameter. On the north side was another skeleton placed 

 like the lirst two, body reclining against the hard core and legs extended 

 on the original surface of the ground. 



In Ko. 9 a fire bed was found at the top; a small, hard, conical mound 

 or core was also under this, but nothing was found in it. 



At 10 feet from the south edge of No. 5 were two medium-sized skel- 

 etons, a lance head by the right side of each. These were lying at the 

 foot of the hard, conical core, instead of reclining upon it. About 2 

 feet below the top of this ancient nioundlet or core, and 4 feet from 

 the top of the modern one built over it, were one very large and two 

 ordinary sized skeletons, all having the skulls above the ribs as though 

 buried in a sitting posture facing each other. With these bones were 

 a fine steatite pipe, a celt, lance-head, fish dart, fragments of pottery, 

 and nmssel shells. These were probably intrusive burials. In the 

 bottom of the old mound were fragments of a prostrate skeleton. 

 Lying on the slope was a skeleton, well preserved, with head toward the 

 top of the mound, and 13 feet north of it was another in like position 

 on the slope of another small conical mound. 



The other mounds were on the same plan, showing that some people 

 had erected a mound over their dead; that subsequently the same or 

 another people had deposited bodies on the side or at the foot of these 

 mounds and covered them with dirt from the excavations near by, and 

 that these later mounds had been increased in size until in some cases 

 they had covered two or even more of the ancient ones. 



OHIO. 



As this state has been the field of the principal archeological investi- 

 gations of Col. Whittlesey, Prof. Locke, Messrs. Squier and Davis, 

 Eev. J. P. McLean, Br. Hempstead, and others, and is the locality to 

 which the Peabody Museum has chiefly directed its attention, compara- 

 tively little work was done here by the Bureau. 



The explorations were chiefly by Mr. Middleton and Mr. Fowke. In 

 the summer of 1887 a resurvey of some of the more important ancient 

 works described and figured by Squier and Davis was made in order 

 to determine the accuracy of the measurements and figures of these 

 authors. The result is outlined herein, though iiublished in full in the 

 bulletin entitled "The (Jircular, Square, and Octagonal Earthworks 

 of Ohio," is.sued in 1889. 



KNOX COUNTY. 



THE IIAWN MOUND. 



This is situated on the farm of Col. William H.Hawn, in Sec. 4, T. 7, 

 K. 11, Howard township, near the bank of Owl creek. It stands on a 

 small terrace, which is about 3 feet higher than the usual level of the 



