444 SOME ABORIGINAL SITES. 
On this property are a number of small rises in sight from each other and 
from the water when vegetation does not interfere. "These rises, very irregular 
in outline of base and ranging up to about 10 feet in height, are on rolling land 
of uneven surface, showing results of wash in flood time, and themselves seemed 
to us probably to have been caused by swirl of water in periods of overflow. 
Investigation, in one instance, came upon a bit of sandstone, a small frag- 
ment of pottery, an inconsiderable part of a bone of a lower animal, and what 
seemed to be small masses of charcoal. АП these, however, we believe might 
have been included in material piled up by the action of water. 
Digging in other rises yielded no objects indicating the agency of man. 
On part of a ridge somewhat nearer Smallhous than the rises just described, 
has been an aboriginal dwelling-site as indicated by many broken shells on the 
surface and a few fragments and broken arrowpoints of flint. The soil, rich in 
organie matter, has a maximum depth of 30 inches. 
A considerable number of trial-holes, but not sufficient to constitute an 
extensive investigation, came upon five burials. Three of these were flat de- 
posits of human bones in no apparent order, having, respectively, one, four, and 
eleven skulls. A little above the largest deposit was a small, grooved axe of 
quartzite, which may have been placed with the burial or possibly had been 
lost in the period of the growth of the site. 
The skeleton of an adolescent, extended on the back, lay 30 inches down on 
undisturbed, yellow clay; a burial closely flexed to the right was somewhat more 
than one foot below the surface. 
“THE INDIAN KNOLL,” OHIO COUNTY. 
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Beginning opposite the town of Paradise, which is across the river in Muhlen- 
berg county, a property belonging to Mr. Jared Brown, of Paradise, extends for 
some distance along the left-hand side of the river, going up. 
A short distance back from the river, on the Brown property, is a rise con- 
sisting of made-ground, between an acre and an acre and a half in extent, we 
were informed, which is locally well known as “The Indian Knoll." This 
Knoll is composed of dark soil, rich with admixture of organic matter, containing 
considerable shell in varying proportions scattered throughout, but nowhere 
forming nearly a homogeneous deposit. The maximum depth of this made- 
ground, the result of slow accretion during aboriginal occupancy, is 4 feet 7 
inches. 
There is no evidence or history of any previous digging for relies or treasure 
in “The Indian Knoll," and as the plow had not reached the graves, the ele- 
vation was practically intact, save in one respect. At the side facing the river 
there has been some wash in periods of high water, but to what extent the original 
size of the Knoll has been diminished cannot now be determined. 
On the Knoll are several frame structures, of course precluding digging to 
the extent of the area occupied by them, but ample room for adequate investi- 
