72 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SEC1LIONS, 
No. 3. A grave of the same size and depth as No. 2, containing ani- 
mal bones, broken pottery, and some charcoal. 
No. 4. Grave; the size. depth, and contents same as the preceding. 
No. 5. A circular pit 2 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep. This con- 
tained a very large pot, in which were some animal bones; it was on its 
side and crushed. 
No. 6. A pit 24 feet deep and 2 feet square, with a bed of charcoal in 
the bottom 6 inches deep. On this bed was a layer of flint chips, and 
on the chips a quantity of broken pottery, animal bones, a discoidal 
stone, and a bone implement. 
No. 7. A grave similar to those described. 
No. 8. A large graye, containing three skeletons, lying at full length 
upon the right side, with the heads a little east of north. Between the 
front and the middle one was a mass of mussel shells. At the head and 
back of the front one were a number of animal bones, and between it 
and the middle one, opposite the pelvis, was a large broken pot. The 
right arm of the third or back one was extended forward and up- 
ward, the left arm resting across the head, a white flint chip grasped 
in the hand. The head of this skeleton was resting on a piece “of a 
broken pot, and in front of the face, at the distance of a foot, was also 
part of a pot, containing a stone fragment and some animal bones. 
Under the legs of the three skeletons, the head extending in front of 
the legs of the third or back one, was the skeleton of a bear, and in front 
of the latter were three broken pots, containing animal bones. 
No. 9. A basin-shaped fire-bed, or bed of burnt clay, 8 inches thick. 
section of this bed is shown in Fig. 34—0), b, b, the bed of burnt 
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Fia. 34.—Fire-bed, Wilkes County, North Carolina. 
clay, 8 inches thick, the material evidently placed here and not a part 
of the original soil. The basin a was filled with ashes, to the depth of 
12 inches; the diameter, from 1 to 2, 2 feet 3 inches, from 1 to 5 and 
from 2 to 4, 1 foot 6 ache 
No. 10. A bed of mussel shells, 3 inches thick and 5 feet in diameter, 
lying on a flat bed of burnt earth 3 inebes thick. : 
No. 11. A pit 5 feet deep and 3 feet in diameter, filled with animal 
bones, mussel shells, and broken pottery. 
There was no mounding over any of these graves or pits. 
