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and no protection of logs had been placed arround them, nor were any 

 ornaments found with them. It is worthy of note that of all the 

 skeletons found in the mound the eight first described were buried 

 with especial care and each of them had some mark of distinction or 

 token of affection. The arrangement of the bodies was also somewhat 

 remarkable, they being placed with great uniformity with the heads 

 alternately toward the east and west. The suggestion is offered that 

 this arrangement was made simply with a view to economise space. 

 During the last war the writer had occasion to visit the battle field of 

 Chantilly, Va., for the purpose of obtaining the body of a relative 

 killed in that battle. There had been a hasty retreat and but little 

 time was afforded for the burial of the dead. The body sought was 

 found in a shallow pit evidently made in haste, and in this pit 37 

 bodies had been placed and barely covered with earth. The arrange- 

 ment of the bodies was precisely the same as in this mound, heads and 

 feet being placed alternately, with the evident object of crowding as 

 many as possible into the excavation. This disposition of the bodies 

 allows a greater number to be placed side by side than if all had been 

 deposited with the heads in one direction. 



The excavation above described occupied the northwest quarter of 

 the mound and nothing farther was found in this section. Some days 

 later work was resumed by carefully uncovering the whole of the 

 northeast quarter of the mound until the floor was reached. The 

 space was found covered with skeletons, 10 in number, which had 

 been promiscuously thrown down, the bodies being bent at all angles 

 and the limbs of one often lying across those of another. As in the 

 case of the former deposit a layer of charcoal was found over the upper 

 surface and another had been placed below. The cross section of the 

 mound plainly exhibited these two layers of charcoal. No implements 

 or ornaments were found with these bodies. In one corner of the 

 area, near the center of the mound (Plate 1, Fig. 5, X.), there was a 

 small heap of ashes containing a few burnt bones and calcined mussel 

 shells. At the outer angle (Fig. 5, V.), was a vase of baked clay 

 crushed to fragments, the rim only retaining its original form. This 

 vase or funeral urn was placed with the mouth downwards. Its in- 

 terior surface was coated with black carbonaceous matter. In the 

 south half of the mound, that part from which the clay had been 

 taken for making brick, a pit was dug and bones were reached quite 

 near the present surface. Here were parts of three skeletons, and as 



