109 BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE NORTHERN SECTIONS. 
Grave h.—A stone sepulcher, 14 feet square and 1 foot deep, stone 
slabs on the four sides and top; the bottom consisted simply of 
earth hardened by fire. This contained only a trace of bones and pre- 
sented indications of at least partial cremation, as all around the slabs, 
outside and inside, was a solid mass of charcoal and the earth was 
burned to the depth of a foot. 

Fic. 42.—Copper plate from Etowah mound, Georgia. 
Grave 7.—A stone sepulcher, 44 feet long, 14 feet wide, and as deep, 
the bottom earth ; contained the remains of a skeleton resting on the back, 
head north, and feet doubled back so as to come within the coffin. On 
the breast was a thin plate of copper, five inches square, with a hole 
through the center. Around the wrists were beads, and about the 
neck rather more than a quart of the same. 
At j were the remains of a small child, without stone surroundings ; 
