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small (juautity of white bone ashes lay scattered upon its western 

 border. This burnt streak overlaid a thin sand seam, below which it 

 seems it could not penetrate. The jjostmolds of the superstructure 

 consisted of a double row, the outer one being xmiformly directly over 

 the lower series in a vertical line, and separated from the latter en- 

 tirely around the circle by a solid line of gravel. The two rows of the 

 upper structure averaged 18 inches apart. Both might have ex- 

 tended originally above the surface of the mound, since they were dis- 

 covered between IJ and 2 feet beneath the surface, which had been 

 considerably plowed. Horizontal timber molds a little smaller in diam- 

 eter, filled, in places, with charcoal, could be distinctly seen lying 

 against the side of each line of posts at the points shown in the figure. 

 These appear to have been cross beams or stays used for bracing pur- 



Section a. 



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Section a. 

 Fig. v(22. — Pyramidal nioiind, Bauin works, TIoss county, Ohio. 



poses. In the eastern trench a gap, 3 feet 3 inches wide, was noticed 

 by the absence of postmolds in both ujiper and lower series. 



All the skeletons discovered were in the area inclosed by these posts. 

 These lay at different depths and in different positions, the favorite or 

 predominant one, at least in the upper 2)ortion, being just inside and 

 alongside of the inner circle of palings. The skeletons unearthed 

 were all in a remarliably good state of preservation. None of them 

 could have been intrusively buried, for the stratification above them 

 was not disturbed. All excepting I^os. 15, 10, and i7 lay upon one or 

 another of the thin seams of sand. All except No. 10 lay stretched 

 out at full length. The latter lay partly upon the side, with knees 

 drawn up and head crouched down upon the ribs, as though originally 

 placed in a sitting jjosture. All except Nos. 1.3 and 10 had the arms 

 and hands placed at the sides. The right arm of skeleton No. 1.3 lay 



