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valley near tlie verge. AboiTt a rod we.st of it is a short, dee]) gully 

 that drains the fields to the north, and a few rods farther west is a deep 

 ravine, through which flows a small, clear stream coming from the hills 

 a short distance to the north. An iron tomahawk and many arrow 

 heads have been plowed up around the mound. It is of the ordinary 

 conical form, circidar in outline, 45feet in diameter, and 5 feet high at 

 the time it was examined, though reduced fully one-half in height by 

 thirty years' cultivation. Col. Hawn, who saw it fifty 

 years ago, says it was then about 12 feet high, with 

 a pointed apex, and surrounded by a log fence about 

 4 feet high, the bottom course being made of the 

 trunks of trees placed end to end, the second and 

 last courses similar, but placed across the corners. 

 The iuclosure had an opening to the east. 



An east and west section is given in Fig. 304. A 

 pit (c), in the original soil, 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 

 2 feet deep, with sloping sides, contained the skeleton ?• 

 of an adult, lying at full length, face up and head to p 

 the north. Over this, filling the pit and constituting I, 

 the greater part of the mound, was yellow earth [h) S 

 similar to the adjacent soil. About 9 inches above " 

 the original surface of the ground was a horizontal ^ 

 layer (rf), 9 inches thick, of muck or river mud, ex ^ 

 tending over an area about 20 feet in diameter. % 

 Above this, which showed unmistakable evidences 3 

 of fire on its surface, was a mass (e) of mingled ashes | 

 and earth from a foot to 2 feet in thickness. At / ?^ 

 there was a small fire bed. No relics of any kind g f fi''\' 

 were discovered except the fragment of an arrowhead S 

 made of Flint ridge stone. 4 



THE STAATS MOUND. E 



This mound, which is irregularly conical, with an 

 average diameter of 52 feet, and a little over 7 feet 

 high, is located on the farm of Jacob Staats, in Sec. 

 1, T. 0, E. 10, Butler township. It stands on the ex- 

 treme point of a promontory that extends from the 

 hills out into the valley of Owl creek and terminates 

 in an abrupt descent of 90 feet. The topography of 

 the immediate locality is shown in Fig. 305. 



The base of the mound is nearly circular; in the top is a depression,- 

 as shown in sections B and C, PI. xxviii, but this is explained by tlie 

 fact that a small pit was dug here some years ago and afterwards 

 filled up. 



Encircling the base and resting upon the original surface of the 

 ground was a wall about a foot in height and from 2 to 3 feet thick. 



