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or partially covered with poles. It had evidently been built up in the 

 form of a pen, but neither the number of rounds nor original height 

 could be definitely ascertained. From appearances it is probable there 

 were not more than two or three tiers and the height not more than 2 

 or 3 feet. Near the center was the extended skeleton of an adult, head 

 south, with which were enough shell beads to make a string 9 yards in 

 length. The lower tier of logs was a foot or more down in the orig- 

 inal soil, showing that a slight excavation had been made in the sur- 

 face before the vault was built. The remains of some of the logs ex- 

 hibited traces of fire, though the dirt around them showed no indica- 

 tions of heat. A trench was dug through the surrounding wall south 

 of the mound. Near the middle were the remains of a post 6 inches in 

 diameter. In another trench through the south wall, near the corner, 

 was the burnt end of a post a foot in diameter. 



A few yards south of this work is a small circular inclosure {b, Fig. 

 308) and inside ditch, the opening being toward the large inclosure. 

 The diameter north and south is 120 feet; east and west, 124 feet. 

 Owing to long cultivation only faint traces of them remain. The 

 greatest height of the wall at present is not more than 15 inches. 



FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

 ANCIENT WORKS NEAU DUBLIN. 



The works represented in Fig. 310 are 1 mUe northeast of Dublin 

 and one-fourth of a mile east of the Scioto river. They are on a nearly 

 level area of the higher lands of the section. Contrary to what is 

 usual, the soil immediately around them is not nearly so fertile as that 

 a short distance away. 



At 1 is a circular embankment with an inside ditch. The diameter, 

 measuring from the middle line of the embankment on one side to the 

 middle on the other side, is 120 feet, the wall is about 10 feet broad and 

 2 feet high, and the ditch 15 feet wide and 2 feet deep, leaving a level 

 inclosed circular area 80 feet in diameter. On the east side is a gate- 

 way 12 feet wide. 



No. 2 is a rectangular inclosure with rounded corners. In measuring- 

 it, stakes were set where the middle lines of the embankment would 

 cross if produced. The distances between these stakes were as follows : 

 North side, 287 feet; west side, 212 feet; south side, 262 feet ; east side, 

 220 feet. The outer line of the west wall forms a curve along its entire 

 length ; the other sides are straight. On the north, east, and west sides 

 the wall is 25 feet across the base; on the south side, 35; its height, quite 

 uniform throughout, is about 3 feet. It is bordered on the inside by a 

 ditch 10 feet wide on the south side, 20 on the east and north sides, and 

 30 on the west side; depth about 2 feet on the east side, gradually 

 increasing along the north from 3 to 4 feet, being widest and deepest 

 at the southwest corner. Thus more earth was taken out along the west 

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