Excavations in the Matthews Site, New Madrid County, Mo, 89 
Table I (Continued) 
Site Number Location Description 
NMoii 1 SqOR2 Adult male (?), extended, very dis- 
turbed; 1.3' deep; debris of burned house 
in upper level; possible victim of vio- 
lence; no burial mound. 
NMoii 2 Sq(-5R3) House floor F7; lower level site under 
mound ; 3.5' deep ; infant, possibly foetus, 
in floor pit ; No associations. 
NM012 2 SqSOLl Adult male skull, disturbed; 1.5' dteo; 
in burial mound, flexed ( ?) ; potsherds. 
NM012 2 Sq15L1 Disturbed burial, no skull; 0.5' deep; in 
burial mound, flexed (?). 
NM012 3 Sq20R2 Disturbed burial, no skull; 1.0' deep; in 
burial mound. 
NM0I2 4 Sql5R3 Disturbed burial, adult male, head east 
(?); 2.5' deep; bowl P4, pot P5; in 
burial mound. 
NM012 Many burials with much pottery ex- 
cavated in this mound in 1878. 
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NM013 Probably a burial mound— not dug. 
NM014 Large burial mound excavated in 1878. 
Source of much pottery. 
Chipped flint artifacts include 77 small arrow points, both 
triangular and notched-stem forms with fine chipping, some of 
which are serrated; 3 hoes and fragments of several more; 9 
chisels; 14 celts; and several rechipped scrapers (Plate XIII-A). 
Bone artifacts comprise 9 awls, 4 of them made from deer 
ulnae; 17 antler tip flakers; projectile points; 3 needles, 4 cylin- 
ders; one large carbonized astragalus bone used as a polisher; 
and a few cut bones used as ornaments; one piece of cannel 
coal showing use as a polisher, and a cube of galena which may 
have been used as an ornament. A small gastropod sea shell 
may have been an ornament, and clam shell spoons were found 
with several burials. (Plate XIII-A) 
The largest celt measures 4.75 by 2.25 inches and was found 
at a depth of 1.3 feet in house F9. The smallest celt, found at 
a depth of 1.8 feet in house T16, Fl, measures 2.5 by 1.25 inches. 
Several chisel celts are of flint, evidently rechipped from broken 
