510 MOUND EXPLOKATIONS. 



there are also at this point some iudicatious of a graded way or path- 

 way down the slope, but a slight ravine which has been washed out 

 here renders it impossible to decide in regard to this with certainty. 

 The wall in the woodland varies in height from li to 3 feet, most of it 

 being over 2 feet high. The width varies from 16 to 20 feet. In the 

 central portion is a basin-shaped excavation or depression, 40 feet in 

 diameter and (! feet deep, evidently artiflcial. No trees are growing 

 in it. . 



An inclosure formerly stood on the farm of Mr. B. F. Denuison on 

 lot 46, Gerry township. It is stated by those who remember it that it 

 was circular and embraced about 3 acres. There is one piece of its 

 wall 90 feet long yet standing. It is 2 feet high on the outside, and, 

 in form, the arc of a circle. Other works of a similar character for- 

 merly existed in the same section, but have all been effaced except two 

 on Mr. Almy's farm. 



CIKCl'LAK WORKS ON THK AI.MY FARM, SOl'TH STOCKTON. 



On the farm of Mr. John Almy in South Stockton, 4 miles southwest 

 of Sinclairville, are two circular works. They are in the woods and 

 the walls have been worn considerably by hauling over them the 

 heavy timber that grows here. The first measured 132 feet north aud 

 south aud 1,129 feet east and west. A fence cuts off a small portion 

 on the south, beyond which the laud descends. If the embaukment 

 were a continuous circle it must have ruu down this slope, but no traces 

 of a wall can now be seen here. On the western side is seen a broad, 

 deep ditch, which must have entirely encircled the embankment. 

 Though the bank can be traced entirely around north of the fence, per- 

 fect walls are seen only from the north to the west; they measure fi'om 

 li to 3 feet high. 



The second iuclosure lies 163 feet northeast of the first. It is 184 

 feet north and south by l.'jl east and west, as near as could be deter- 

 mined in the absence of a wall on the eastern side. The portions of 

 the wall standing measvu-e from 2i to 5i feet high on the outside and 

 from 6 inches to 3 feet inside. The outside ditch, therefore, is quite 

 deep. On the east a somewhat steep declivity is seen. To continue 

 the embankment in the line marked out by the circular wall would 

 cari-y it down the declivity. It is not unlikely that this embankment, 

 considering its circular form, was originally a continuous circle, as well 

 as the one last described, and that the declivity by washing away in 

 course of time encroached upou the wall and carried it away at this 

 Ijoint. A steep declivity is also seen near the northeast part of the 

 embankment. No relics were found here. 



A circular inclosure, embracing about 2i acres, formerly stood on 

 the low land about SO rods south of the above described works, on the 

 land of Mr. S. M. Tower. This laud has been cleared and plowed, and 

 numerous stone implements and ornaments and fragments of pottery 



