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In another part of the ground, four feet down, 1 foot 3 inches of which were 
in solid clay, was an inverted bowl 13.5 inches in diameter. This bowl, a part of 
which was crushed, covered from the head to the waist the skeleton of a small 
infant. Тһе leg bones, which were missing, probably had extended beyond the 
bowl and had been cut away without discovery by our digger. With the skeleton 
were small shell beads, and below it was a large mussel shell (Quadrula bopkin- 
ғала”), the concave side uppermost, which may have contained some perishable 
offering. 
About 6 inches below the surface was a bowl 14 inches in diameter and about 
6 inches deep, resting on its base. Within were a few decaying fragments of bone, 
apparently having belonged to the skeleton of a very young infant. 
Above this bowl was another bowl, or a large part of another one, badly 
crushed. 
The presence of urn-burials at Moundville was not a surprise to us, inasmuch 
as this form of burial was practised along the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers, 
though 1t 1s remarkable that but two instances were encountered by us in all our 
digging at Moundville. 
Бікі» East or MOUND G. 
In the field east of Mound G twenty-nine trial-holes were sunk, and two 
burials without associated artifacts were encountered. 
FIELD NEAR Мосхр M. 
Not shown on our plan of the mounds is a great field outside the circle, which 
was not investigated at the time of our first visit as the cotton growing upon it 
was then too far advanced to be disturbed. In this field, 325 feet WSW. from 
Mound M, is the remnant of a conical mound of clay. 
Our work at this place, in addition to many trial-holes in all directions, was 
continued for two days with a force of twelve men, beginning 65 feet in a northerly 
direction from the base of the remnant of the mound to which reference has been 
made. 
Fifty-nine burials were encountered, none differing іп form from those 
described as coming from the ground south of Mound D. 
At this place some burials seem to have been made in the underlying clay, 
while others were in pits evidently put down from the surface. With the deeper 
burials no artifacts were found, and but few—all purely aboriginal—were with the 
other burials. 
. At this place, as elsewhere, a number of bones showing a specific disease were 
present. No determination could be reached as to the condition of the deeper 
bones owing to their advanced stage of decay. 
1 All E ea of shells in this and accompanying papers have been made by Dr. H. A. 
Pilsbry and Mr. E. G. Vanatta, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 
