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Throughout this grave, whose inside measurement ranged between 16 and 
20 inches in height, were human bones in no anatomical order, though an effort 
clearly had been made to place the long bones longitudinally and horizontally. 
Thirteen skulls, all much decayed, as were the other bones, were present. 
As to the discovery of artifacts, as is usually the case with stone graves, we had 
our labor for our pains, as the saying goes. 
MOUND AND SITE ON THE CHERRY PLACE, BUTLER COUNTY. 
On the property of Dr. E. A. Cherry, of Morgantown, Ky., on a hill, is a 
mound about one quarter of a mile back from the river, in a straight line. This 
mound, 3 feet 6 inches in height and 32 feet by 22 feet in basal diameters at the 
present time, seemingly had been greatly dug into before our coming, as quanti- 
ties of masses of stone, evidently from it, lay in all directions on its surface. So 
numerous were these masses that it seemed to us more likely that the mound 
had been an ordinary stone mound of the kind so often found on hilltops, rather 
than one containing a large single grave. 
On an adjoining field of the same property, under and around the home of 
the tenant occupying Doctor Cherry’s place, evidently had been a cemetery of 
stone box-graves, traces of a number of which still remained. Four of the 
better-preserved graves examined by us were without covering and had been 
rifled but had the sides and ends still remaining. 
MOUNDS NEAR LITTLE REEDY POINT, BUTLER COUNTY. 
On the property of Mr. G. M. Taylor, who lives upon it, is a high ridge, 
one end of which, reached by a winding road, looks down upon the river. On 
this extremity of the ridge are two mounds near together, while two others but a 
short distance apart are about one hundred yards back along the ridge which, 
where the mounds are, is covered with light woods. 
These mounds, which unfortunately had been thoroughly dug out previous 
to our visit, had each contained a single, large grave, judging from part of the 
contents of one mound not wholly scattered. 
The mound in question, 21 feet in diameter, centrally had contained a stone 
grave 7 feet 10 inches in length and 3 feet 5 inches in width, inside measurement, 
built of slabs and masses of sandstone and of limestone, the masses in nearly 
every ease showing flat surfaces which had been utilized in the construction of 
the grave, giving it interiorly a comparatively regular surface. Unfortunately 
one of the longer sides, which was almost perfectly even, could not be shown 
in the photograph (Fig. 24) owing to the presence of trees where the camera 
must needs have been placed to show it. The large block seen projecting from 
the side at the reader's left in the illustration, had not been originally placed as 
it now is, but owes its position to the roots of a neighboring tree, which have 
pushed it beyond the general line of the wall. 
This interesting grave had not been constructed, the reader will note, as 
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