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Fic. 17.— Vessel No.2. Mound С. (Diameter 4 inches.) 
considerably deeper, substantiated our belief that the base of the mound had been 
reached. А plan showing the excavation and the superficial work done by us in 
this mound is given in Fig. 18. 
In the northeastern part of the great excavation burials were met with at a 
depth of from 2.5 feet to 4.5 feet. 
Two and one-half feet from the surface, with no burial remaining, was а hand- 
some disc of metamorphic gneiss, 10.25 inches in diameter, with scalloped rim and 
with incised decoration on one side only (Fig. 19). On one side of the disc are 
traces of paint. 
In an earlier part of this report we have described the finding of two stone 
dises at Moundville, previous to our visit, and have given references to works in 
which the area of distribution of large stone discs and slabs is described and their 
probable use discussed. Stone discs and slabs' were found by us on many occasions 
at Moundville, as will be noted in this report, and in each case the dise or the slab 
was more or less thickly smeared with paint, sometimes cream-colored, sometimes 
* Compare, Jesse Walter Fewkes, “Two Summers’ Work in Pueblo Ruins," 22nd Ann. Rep. Bur. 
Am. Eth., Part I, p. 185 et seq., where ceremonial slabs found in Arizona are described. 
19 JOURN. A. N. S. PHILA,, VOL. XII. 
