342 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
Adults lying on the right side, the limbs partly flexed, 4 
Adults lying on the left side, the limbs partly flexed, 4 
Adult closely flexed on the back, the knees drawn to the а 1 
Adult extended to the knees from which the legs flexed downward, 1 
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Children and infants, ) ; , 
_ Child in sitting position "idi kgs fumed lo left at an angle of forty-five 
degrees, 
Urn-burials of infants, 
Aboriginal disturbances, 
Disturbed by our diggers, ; 
Not determined on account of фен: 
Not determined, 
This last skeleton TE in soll so vee What it was РЯ uF uncover it except 
piece-meal. 
ри 8 Burials numbers 40 апа 41, an adult and infant (Fig. 2), 
/ a both fully extended on their backs, lay in a grave together. 
The grave, the base of which was 4.5 feet from the surface 
(an exceptionally great depth for an aboriginal interment at 
Moundville), extended about 1.5 feet into the hard clay, above 
which was the dark earth made by aboriginal occupancy, 3 
feet in depth at this point. 
That part of the grave which was in the clay was sharply 
defined and was filled with yellow sand. No sand was 
encountered by us elsewhere in our work on this strip of 
ground, though similar sand is found in a neighboring field. 
It was impossible, owing to the number of aboriginal dis- 
turbances, to determine from what level the grave was begun 
—whether from the original level, that is to say the surface 
of the clay, or from some stage in the period of formation of 
the artificial soil, or from the present level of the ground. 
That part of the grave which lay in the hard clay was, 
as we have said, sharply defined, the sides being clearly cut 
and perpendicular. The length was 7 feet 4 inches; the 
Fic. %.—Burials numbers — Dreadth varied from 1 foot 4 inches to 2 feet. 
Шала. a NN On the lower right-hand side was an offset in which the 
infants skeleton lay. Another offset was on the opposite 
side, but at the other end of the grave. Nothing was found in this offset, though 
presumably it was made for a purpose and perhaps originally contained objects of 
a perishable nature. 
By the side of the skull of the adult skeleton, which lay almost due east and 
west, the head being directed toward the east, were a broken water-bottle and a 
cup-shaped vessel. In the sand near the left-hand side of the skull was an ear-plug 
of wood, copper-coated, badly decayed. In contact with each temporal bone were 
several pendants and parts of pendants of sheet-copper. 
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