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and hiimiin bones. A man named Grates discovered, along with some 

 human bones, a piece of an iron ketth'. A Mr. Baldwin obtained, near 

 the surface immediately inside of the southeast wall, what appears 

 from examination to be an old-fashioned French ankle-cuflf or manacle, 

 with its key in the lock. Numerous arrowheads, celts, concave disks, 

 and a stone pipe have been found in and around the work. 



Mr. Baldwin says a circular embankment, 5 feet high, existed on his 

 place fifty years ago, directly south of the above described earthwork 

 and on the other side of the creek. It covered about 2 acres, and had 

 small timber on it. 



Mr. Cheney mentions and figures an elliptical inclosure on the south 

 side of Clear creek, which he says was situated on the first terrace or 

 gradual rise from the creek. He gives the longer axis as 218 feet, the 

 shorter, 168 feet, and states that the wall had then " an altitude above 

 the exterior surface of 9 feet, and above the surface of the interior of 

 the work of only .5 feet; it was 32 feet in width."' No traces of it now 

 remain. It was on a farm now owned by Charles Gapleson, 2 miles east 

 of Ellington, and situated under the shadow of his house and barn. 



The site of the large ijarallelogram, of which Mr. Clieney speaks and 

 which he represents on PI. vii of his paper, was visited. This work 

 was situated on the south side of Clear creek, on a high bluff, 2 miles 

 above Ellington, on what is known as tht- old Boyd farm. It ran to the 

 edge of the bluft", which runs about 1.50 feet above the creek valley, but 

 no traces of it now remain. Mr. Isaac Staftbrd, who worked the ground 

 twenty-six years ago, found about this fort bushels of stone implements, 

 comprising arrowheads, celts, concave disks, mortars, pestles, etc. Mr. 

 Hiram Lawrence, who also worked the land, found on the site two curi- 

 ously shaped ])ipes, one of stone, the other of clay. 



INCLOSUKE ox THE FAHM OK MR. FRANK LAWRENCE. 



This is on the other side of the creek, iu the woods, on the high laud 

 directly opposite the site of theoiie last mentioned. It is an embankment 

 or earthen wall, forming an almost perfect circle, 190 feet in diameter, and 

 now consists only of portions at the southeast and southwest, where 

 the walls are still standing, ranging in height from li to 2 feet, meas- 

 uring on the outside. It is shown in Fig. 334. The site is covered with 

 forest trees, chieiiy beech and maple, some of which, measuring from 18 

 inches to 2 feet in diameter, stand on the wall. This work is on the 

 farm of Mr. Frank Lawrence. In this same field and almost adjoining 

 this last is a portion of what may have been a similar structure. It 

 extends across the fence into the cleared field beyond. Here the culti- 

 vation of the land has rendered it untraceable. 



On the farm of Mr. N. E. G. Cowan, near Rutledge, a mound 20 feet 

 in diameter and C feet high was opened some years since. Nine liodies 

 were found buried in a sitting posture, in a circle, back to back, with 

 feet outward. Beneath the bones was a layer of ashes. Twenty -four 



