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mound, The mound was staked off and two trenches were 
Started at either end of the long axis. The mound was stripped 
but large rocks and features were left in position. It was found 
that the whole central portion of the mound had been intensively 
pitted by commercial diggers. One of these diggers had left a 
penny dated 1892 at the bottom of one of the pits. However, 
the rest of the mound had not been disturbed. The original 
mound builders constructed a number of platforms of irregular 
residual flint. Those platforms when undisturbed were small 
and approximately a meter in diameter. They seem to have been 
made to represent animal outlines. Legs and a head with a 
rounded body is apparent in the platform near the WSW end 
of the mound. This may represent the bear. Fifty centimeters 
from this platform was a smaller irregular oval shaped plat- 
form with a crude grooved ax of granite which had apparently 
been used to break up the rocks. Thirteen meters to the east 
Of this platform was another with an outline representation of 
a tail, legs and head with antlers, probably a deer. 
It is possible that other platforms were placed near to the 
center of the mound but these must have been destroyed by the 
commercial diggers. 
Two intrusive burials were found near the WSW end of 
the long axis of the mound. One of these was a tightly flexed 
adult covered with a layer of limestone slabs; the other was an 
Ossuary containing long bones and decapitated skulls of several 
adults. The skulls had been broken off above the preauricular 
point, inion and glabella. The mantle rocks of the primary 
mound had not been replaced over the burial. (See Plate III B). 
Two more intrusive burials of adults were let down into a 
trench and placed below the base of the mound in two pits 
after which the trench was filled with black loam that had been 
brought up from bottomland and along the Plattin Creek. These 
burials were along one side of the long axis. Both of the burials 
were extended but the pits were so small that the legs were 
drawn up. One of the pits was lined on the bottom with flat 
limestone slabs. A split animal bone hair ornament lay partly 
under the occipit. 
