64 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS. 
Nos. 1, 2, 3,4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 indicate the positions of single skele- 
tons found lying horizontally, on their backs, heads east and northeast. 
With No. 2 was found a broken soapstone pipe, and with Nos. 5 and 9 
one small polished celt each. 
Nos. 10, 11, 12, 15, 14, and 15 indicate the positions of skeletons in- 
closed in rude stone vaults built of cobblestones and similar to those 
in the preceding mound. (See Fig. 25.) Nos. 10, 12.15, and 15 were in 
a sitting posture, without any accompanying articles. 
Graves 11 and 14 contained each two bodies, extended horizontally, 
the lower ones, which were of smaller stature than the upper ones, face 
up and with heavy flat stones on the extended arms and legs. The 
upper ones, with face down, were resting on those below. No imple- 
ments or ornaments were found with them. 
Near No. 12 about a peck of singular, pinkish-colored earth was 
found. 

Fic. 27.—Engraved shell gorget from mound, Caldwell County, North Carolina. 
In the northwest part of the triangle (at A in Fig. 26) ten or more 
skeletons were found in one grave or group, which from the arrange- 
ment the explorers concluded must have been buried at one time; the 
“old chief” (?), or principal personage of the group, resting horizontally 
on his face, with his head northeast and feet southwest. Under his 
head was « large engraved shell gorget (Fig. 27); around his neck 
were a number of large sized shell beads, evidently the remains of a 
necklace; at the sides of the head, near the ears, were five elongate 
copper beads, or rather small cylinders, varying in length from one and 
a quarter to four and a half inches, part of the leather thong on which 
the smaller were strung yet remaining in them. These are made of 
thin pieces of copper cut into strips and then rolled together so that the 
edges meet in a straight joint on one side. (See Fig. 28.) The plate 
out of which they were made was as smooth and even in thickness as 
though it had been rolled. 
