THOM.8.] LENOIR BURIAL PIT, NORTH CAROLINA. 69 
burned that it was impossible to determine whether they were human 
or animal. Beneath this bed the yellow sand was baked to the depth 
of 2 or 3 inches. Under the bones was an uncharred shell gorget. 
No. 2. A skeleton in a sitting posture, facing northeast; a pipe near 
the mouth and a polished celt over the head. 
No, 3. Sitting, facing east, with shell beads around the neck and also 
around the arms just below the shoulders. 
No. 4. Horizontal, on the back, head east and resting on the concave 
surface of an engraved shell; a conch shell (Busycon perversum) at the 
side of the head, and copper and shell beads around the neck. 

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Fic. 33.—Plan of the R. T. Lenoir burial pit, Caldwell County, North Carolina. 
No. 5. Horizontal, head northeast; shell beads around the neck and 
two discoidal stones and one celt at the feet. 
No. 6. A communal grave, containing at least twenty-five skeletons, 
in two tiers, buried without any apparent regularity as to direction or 
relative position. Thirteen of the twenty-five were ‘“flat-heads;” that 
is, ‘the heads running back and compressed in front.” 
Seattered through this grave, between and above the skeletons, were 
polished celts, discoidal stones, shells, mica, galena, fragments of pot- 
