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Fic. 85.—Vessel No. 9. Decoration. Ground south of Mound D. 
(About half size.) 
FIG. 86.—Vessel No. 10. Ground south of Mound D. 
(Diameter 5.9 inches.) 
MOUND E. 
Mound Е, about square ая to its summit plateau, each side being about 140 
feet in length, has undergone much cultivation, and there is much slant to the 
northwestern part of the plateau where heavy and repeated wash of rain has eaten 
deeply into the mound. Thirty-three trial-holes yielded no indication of burials. 
Мосхр F. 
Mound F, seamed with gullies on every side, evidently has lost a considerable 
part of its summit plateau through wash of rain, after cultivation. The part of 
the plateau remaining is about 40 feet east and west by 70 feet north and south. 
Eleven trial-holes showed the presence of burials in the northeastern part of 
the mound. Considerable trenching was next undertaken, extending the full length 
of the mound on each side. One of these trenches showed additional burials in the 
same part of the plateau. 
Eventually a space 38 feet long by 28 feet wide, was marked out on the northern 
part of the plateau, and well to the eastward, excluding northern and western por- 
tions of the plateau where no indication of burial had been found. The area thus 
selected was completely dug through to a depth of 4 feet, and deeper when necessary 
in following pits. 
Burials proved to be confined to a limited area along the eastern side of the 
plateau, in the northern part. Presumably the burial area had been greater, but 
had washed away with parts of the northeastern limit of the mound, The burials, 
nineteen in number, were very fragmentary, being in the last stage of decay, and 
often represented merely by a few crumbling bits. 
Vessel No. 1 is a small, broad-mouthed water-bottle, undecorated, found in 
fragments. 
Vessel No. 2, a small bowl with rough, incised decoration, lay with a dise, 6 
