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Burial No. 3, two femora not in order, with an undecorated pot having two 
loop-handles. 
Burial No. 4, three feet down, fragments of a skull and part of a femur to- 
gether. With these were an undecorated pot and one having two small, hori- 
zontal, opposite extensions from the rim. 
| Burial No. 5, fragments of crowns of teeth in a grave whose base was 6 feet 
6 inches deep, filled in with the dark sand of the mound. With the teeth was 
Fra. 32.— Vessel of earthenware. With Burial No. 2. Tick Island, Ala. (Height 6.2 inches.) 
a celt (which was presented to the owner of the mound), 8 inches long and, like 
nearly all the celts from this region, carelessly ground, having depressions that 
for neatness of appearance should have been obliterated. 
A considerable number of objects were taken from the mound, having no 
burial in association, though presumably most of them had been with bones 
that had decayed away. А well-preserved, spool-shaped ornament of copper, 
around the central part of which was a cord preserved by the deposit of carbonate 
on the metal, lay in the sand near a former digging. Three agricultural imple- 
ments of shale, the largest somewhat more than one foot in length, were found 
