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panymg pottery and artiiacts which have washed out ana aown 
the slope from time to time. 
'About fifty feet north of here is another shallower gulley 
where more pottery has been found, and 150 feet farther north 
is the outline of an older gully. There are also two small narrow 
gullies which drain the southwest part of the pasture near the 
old stump. North of the Steel-Matthews fence, erosion gullies 
are not so well developed, although at some 675 feet north of the 
fence line there is an incipient small gulley. This small gulley 
marks the end of the ditch outside the old village embankment. 
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III. SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS WORK 
This, site was first described in 1880 by W. B. Potter in a 
memoir published by the Academy of Science of St. Louis. In 
his description he refers to this site as ^'Settlement A/'* Plate C 
of Potter's memoir (reproduced herein as Plate II) shows a plan 
of a portion of the settlement lying within the enclosing low 
embankment. This portion of the settlement measures some 
1500 by 800 feet. Potter's description of the site is reprinted 
below, together with the corresponding designations used in the 
present publication. 
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Settlement A.— The northern settlement (Plate C), on 
the West Lake, is about thirteen miles above the town o£ 
on the edge of the swamp. The bluff rises 
about 22' above the present water level in the swamp, and 
is quite steep. A wall and ditch surround the settlement, 
the former of which is 3' to 3' 6" high and the latter 18" 
to 2' deep. The most prominent mount (A) (present 
designation NMolO) is that marked (33) (Plate C), placed 
on the edge of the bluff. It is elliptical in plan, 110' by 70' 
- in diameter at the base and 11' high. The long axis of the 
mound is parallel with the swamp. Excavations have been 
made on this mound, but nothing of importance was dis- 
covered. 
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The mound (B) (present designation NMol2) marked 
(29) is one of the burial mounds of the group. It is a low 
flat mound of circular outline, 90^ in diameter and 7' 6" 
high. From this mound a number of skeletons and a large 
quantity of pottery have been obtained from the north and 
east sides, the south and west sides seeming to be almost 
barren of remains. Col. Croswell, who devoted some time 
in excavating this mound, states that "There appeared to 
have been observance of order in depositing the dead in 
this mound. . . . The skeleton q wprp nften with the feet 
