46 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS. 
Although no mounds containing stone sepulchers fell under their 
notice during their explorations, they obtained satisfactory evidence 
that one within the limits of Chillicothe had been removed, in which a 
stone coffin, ‘‘ corresponding very nearly with the kistvaen of English 
antiquarians ” was discovered. 
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Fic. 20.— Wooden vault (after Squier and Davis). 
Some rather singular burial mounds have been described as found in 
different parts of this State, but unfortunately the descriptions are 
based largely on memory and second-hand, statements and hence do not 
have that stamp of accuracy and authenticity that is desirable. For 
example, a large stone mound, which formerly stood a short distance 
from Newark, is described ! as conical in form, 18° feet in diameter, and 
from 40 to 50 feet high, composed of stones in their natural shape. 
This, upon remoyal, was found to cover some fifteen or sixteen small 
earth mounds. In one of these were found human bones and river 
shells. In another was encountered a layer of hard white fire-clay. 
Two or three feet below this was a wooden trough. This was overlaid 
by small logs of wood to serve as a cover, and in it was found a skeleton, 
around which appeared the impression of a coarse cloth. With it were 
fifteen copper rings and a “ breastplate” of the same metal. The wood 
of the trough and covering was ina good state of preservation. The 
clay which covered it was impervious both to air and water. ‘The logs 

' Smithsonian Report 1866, p. 359. 
