Archaeological Investigations in Jefferson County, Mo, 163 
these mounds Jl and J°35, are adjacent to each other in a 
north-south line while the third, J©2 lies 150 meters to the west. 
Jol was a small low domed mound approximately 10 meters 
in diameter and had a deep pit near the center. J°35 was a 
mound 14 x 18 meters and also had been pitted in several places 
near the center. J°2 was a small low domed mound 11 meters in 
diameter with a deep pit in the center. The ridge at this locality 
Slopes eastward steeply toward the river and toward the west 
from J°2. There is a steep decline to the north to a point of the 
bluff where an old lead shot tower was used for the manufacture 
of bullets in the war of 1812 
A trench the width of J°l was started at the north end of the 
mound and was carried forward. Profile pictures and drawings 
were made at two meter intervals. A thick layer of ash was 
encountered one meter from the north edge so the surface of 
the mound was stripped horizontally and a square layer of 
flat limestone slabs was found over a partly articulated burial 
of two adult individuals without grave furniture. The lower 
legs were disarticulated. (See Plate IIA). Below the south 
edge of the mound lay an extended burial in a sub-mound pit 
with a projectile point. This burial was in extremely fragile 
State of preservation, appears to have been buried before the 
mound was constructed and probably represents an earlier com- 
ponent. The point had an expanding stem and was finely chipped. 
Sherds of the Herculaneum Cord Roughened variety and the 
Herculaneum Reddish Buff, broken worked flint fragments and 
a small isosceles projectile point coarsely chipped were found 
in the mound fill. The ash around the burials in the mound ex- 
tended into the area occupied by the skeletons and certainly 
seems to have had ceremonial significance. It had been manu- 
factured elsewhere as there was no charcoal nearby. 
Inasmuch as sherds or artifacts were in the mound fill but 
not under it, and the characteristics of the sherds and artifacts 
were the same for both the village and mound fills, it is believed 
that the mound structure was of the same age as, or more recent 
than, the village. 
