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of this bottle was a small, undecorated bottle having a neck in the form of a 
truncated cone. The ware of both these bottles, which was without shell- 
tempering, was of fair quality and had borne a high polish originally. 
About 20 inches down in another part of the excavation was a burial extended 
on the back. 
In the field surrounding the mounds are humps and ridges that have been 
plowed over for a long period. Trial-holes in these came upon midden debris 
but no burials. 
At the Turk Place we obtained from a boy who said he had found them to- 
gether on the Allen Place nearby, three implements of flint, probably hoes. 
These objects, the longest of which is about 8 75 inches, the others slightly less, 
are each about 3.25 inches in width, have rounded, unground edges, and are 
without the polish that one sometimes observes on flint implements that have 
seen use in cultivation of the soil. All are on one face flat transversely, some- 
what concave longitudinally, and on the other face convex transversely and 
longitudinally—a shape fitted readily to enter and displace the soil. 
MOUNDS ON THE EDWARDS PLACE, BALLARD COUNTY, Ky. 
About one mile east from the head of Island No. 1 and from the mouth of 
Mayfield creek, on high table-land, on property of Mr. J. P. Edwards, who lives 
on the extensive estate, are two mounds of clay but a few feet apart, the larger 
62 feet across its circular base, with a height of 6 feet 3 inches. 
An excavation 12 feet square showed the former surface of the ground to 
be but 5 feet 2 inches below the top of the mound. No burial was encountered 
in the body of the mound, but commencing at the dark base-line was an oblong 
grave-pit 8 feet 2 inches by 3 feet 6 inches in size, extending 3 feet 3 inches into 
the hard, underlying clay. 
Every part of the contents of this grave was carefully removed with a trowel 
without the discovery of any artifact or bone—not even so much as the crown 
of a human tooth. "The grave, cut into dense clay, had served as a tank, holding 
moisture, its contents being mud while the remainder of the mound and the 
surrounding underlying clay was solid. Probably long-continued wet had aided 
in the complete destruction, through decay of the skeleton which the grave 
at one time must have contained. | 
A hole 12 feet square, sunk in the smaller mound, which was less than 2 feet 
in height and about 50 feet in diameter, yielded no return. 
A low mound much plowed away on another part of the Edwards Place was 
carefully dug into by us, but seemed to have been built as a place of domicile. 
In the soil was what probably had been the handle of a tool. This object is of 
antler, hollowed at one end as if for use as an arrowhead, but greatly curved at 
the other end. 
In a field adjoining the Edwards Place, having some fragments of flint on 
the surface, a number of holes failed to find burials, but came upon, in one in- 
