MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 341 
GROUND NORTHEAST OF MOUND С, 
The ground lying to the northeast of Mound C was considerably dug into by 
us at the time of our first visit. 
On our second visit much additional digging resulted in the discovery of seven 
skeletons of adults, lying at full length on the back; one lying on the left side, 
partly flexed; one aboriginal disturbance; one skeleton of an infant or of a very 
young child; one of an adult, at full length on the back, the upper and lower parts 
being separated by a space of two feet. 
A few comparatively uninteresting vessels were found with the remains. 
GROUND SOUTH or MOUND D. 
We investigated to a certain extent at the time of our first visit the narrow 
strip of land between two deep gullies south of Mound D, which is shown in the 
plan of the mounds. 
This time, in addition to numerous trial-holes all over the ground to the north, 
as well as to the south of Mound D, a part of the area, 172 
feet long, with a maximum width of 46 feet (see plan, Fig. 
1), was dug through by us to undisturbed ground below. 
This work required from ten to sixteen men to dig, with 
three men to oversee, for more than ten days of eight work- 
ing hours each, a certain part of this time, however, being 
occupied in refilling. 
The ground, dark with organic matter, evidently an = 
accumulation during long occupancy, had ап average depth 
of about 2.5 feet, when undisturbed yellow clay was reached. 
Into this clay grave-pits had been dug in places. Іп other 
instances burials had been made in the accumulated soil 
above the clay. The limits of the graves in the soil above, 
and in some instances of those in the clay, were not deter- 
minable owing to the constant digging and redigging for 
burial that had gone on in ancient times, grave cutting 
through grave, rendering impossible exact delimitations, 
and at the same time creating sad havoc to skeletons and 
to pottery. In our enumeration of burials we shall call 
such as suffered in this way aboriginal disturbances, where 
considerable parts of the skeleton remained, but shall take "n аза D3 wd Beige tesi 
no note of single bones scattered here and there, of which tion 
there was a great abundance. 
During our digging south of Mound D, 174 burials were encountered by us, 
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as follows: 
Adults full length on the back, . ; à ; ; : 79 
Adolescents full length on the back, . | { ; 12 
