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Apparently exactly in the center of the base of the mound, was a grave, a 
blunt oval in outline, 7 feet long by 5 feet in maximum breadth, very distinctly 
defined. This grave, whose sides did not converge, extended 3 feet 4 inches 
into the undisturbed, red clay. When the grave was dug the red clay had been 
thrown out around it and apparently had not been used in filling it, as the con- 
tents of the grave consisted of the dark clay of the body of the mound. 
In the wall of the grave, on one side, were four small offsets which did not 
extend to its upper level, but apparently had been hollowed out after the grave 
had been dug. No bones or artifacts were discovered in them. 
About centrally on the base of the grave was a mass of pure, gray clay, 2 
feet long by 18 inches wide and 3 inches thick. In this clay was a copper celt 
3 inches in length and 1.3 inch in maximum width. Almost under the celt was 
a reel-shaped ceremonial ornament of sheet-copper (Plate V, Fig. 2) about 4 
inches square measuring across the extremities, the longer axis of the body 
and its two perforations longitudinal with the grave. Beneath this ornament 
were faint traces of bone. 
MOUND В. 
Mound B, 6 feet 7 inches high when measured from the level of the field 
and 35 feet in diameter of base was investigated by us, a central excavation 
14 feet square being sunk to its base, which proved to be slightly more than 
6 feet from the summit. 
Nothing was discovered in the body of the mound, but almost in the center 
of the base was an oblong grave extending E. and W., 11 feet 5 inches long by 
6 feet wide at the top, but converging to 5 feet 4 inches by 3 feet at its bottom, 
which was 5 feet below the level of the base. АП around this grave, for а con- 
siderable distance, was piled clay taken out in its digging—red clay and yellow 
clay, the red, undisturbed clay having been dug through, and a lower, under- 
lying clay, yellow in color, having been reached and thrown out above the red 
clay. 
As in the ease of the grave in Mound A, apparently little if any of the earth 
that had been thrown out in digging the grave in Mound B had been used to 
fill it, but seemingly the building of the mound had begun over and around 
the open grave, the dark material composing the mound filling the grave also. 
On the base of this grave, though not completely covering it, was a layer 
of pure, gray clay, about 4 inches in maximum thickness, of the kind probably 
used for pottery and similar to the clay found in connection with burials through- 
out this region. 
Under the clay layer, about 2 feet 4 inches from the eastern end of the grave, 
were two ear-ornaments of sheet-copper, of the spool-shape variety, lying about 
such distance apart as the breadth of a skull would be. Near these ornaments 
were fragments of crowns of teeth, stained green from the copper salt. 
About 15 inches farther toward the foot of the grave were the fragments 
of a reel-shaped ornament of sheet-copper, badly decayed, which evidently 
