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few per cent. of carbon in the graphitic form, as well as some coarser and finer 
grains of quartz sand." “Тһе particles of carbon," says Doctor Keller, “ аге very 
fine and pretty thoroughly disseminated through the mass." 
With some burials was sand colored with hematite; with others, charcoal. 
Not found directly with burials were: two arrowheads or knives, of chert; 
several flakes of the same material; two masses of galena (lead sulphide) from the 
carbonate deposit occurring on which the aborigines made white-lead paint; a few 
scattered sherds; a large deposit of earthenware. 
This deposit, beginning near the eastern margin of the mound, as usual, cov- 
ered a considerable area and extended a number of feet toward the center. It con- 
sisted mainly of a great number of fragments of vessels, several hundred at least, 
and represented parts of many vessels, none of which, so far as we could determine, 
had a full complement of fragments present. ОҒ course, the determination of the 
number of fragments of a vessel which may be in a mound is more difficult when 
а vessel is undecorated or bears a check-stamp decoration, as identifications of adja- 
cent parts is less readily made in such cases than when distinctive decoration aids 
the investigator. However, it is entirely possible that parts of decorated vessels 
even escaped our vigilance by being thrown back by shovels with sand, for when 
sherds are widely scattered, one lying here and one there, the whole area in which 
they lie cannot be passed through a sieve as can be done and is done by us when 
fragments of vessels lie more closely together. 
Beside the small check-stamp, which greatly predominated, the forms of deco- 
ration present on the ware were: a few examples of the complicated stamp, faintly 
impressed; the cord-marked; several designs with red paint; a few interesting 
patterns, sometimes incised, sometimes neatly made with the impress of a point 
or, in some instances perhaps, of a roulette.! 
Gritty ware was sparingly represented; no shell-tempered ware was found. 
Here and there in the deposit, farther in than were most of the fragments, were 
several whole vessels and large parts of vessels. АП these had mortuary perfora- 
tion of base, which was apparent also on many fragments. 
Certain sherds had belonged to vessels bearing feet. 
Entire vessels and large parts of vessels from this mound will be described in 
* detail : 
Vessel No. 1.—The greater part of a bowl which had been surrounded below 
the rim by a band of rather rudely-executed, incised decoration. 
Vessel No. 2.—4 pot of inferior ware having a rather faintly-impressed, small 
check-stamp. 
Vessel No. 3.—A bowl of yellow ware, undecorated save for a single, incised 
line immediately below the rim. 
Vessel No. 4.—A bowl of inferior material, rudely decorated with incised, 
parallel lines below the margin. 
! * Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States" W. H. Holmes, Fig. 45. Twentieth Ann. 
Rep. Bur. Am. Ethnol., 1898-99. 
