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It was evident from the appearance of the surface that the mound had long 
been a place of abode, for scattered about was much debris, consisting of bits of 
flint, fragments of pottery, and small masses of baked clay, which, as the surface 
of the mound had been under cultivation, probably came from fireplaces broken by 
the plow. With the fragmentary material on the surface were found several small 
arrow points, a “celt” somewhat broken, and an earthenware pipe of ordinary form. 
The mound, which probably had increased in height by stages, was composed 
of loamy material with a large admixture of ashes and much baked clay in masses, 
perhaps fireplaces broken through in digging graves—for the aborigines had buried 
where they lived. 
Extensive digging was done by us in this mound, resulting in the discovery of 
one burial in the southeastern part of it; of two near the northeastern corner; and 
of twenty-three burials near together in the central part of the western half. Іп 
addition, five burials were found, widely apart, in a ridge which forms part of a 
field to the westward of the mound. 
The burials in the mound proper were in graves, from slightly below the sur- 
face to a depth of 4 feet. It was impossible to determine if the deeper graves had 
been made at a period when the mound was of the same height that it was at the 
time of our visit, as none of them cut through any stratum or fireplace, though 
probably other of the deeper graves in the mound which were not found by us may 
do so. 
A number of burials had been cut through by later graves. This condition in 
several instances proved to be unfortunate, as, for example, Burial No. 12 (a well- 
preserved adult skeleton, the only one the skull of which was in a condition to 
save), which a later interment had deprived of the bones of the lower limbs. 
As arule, the form of burial was at full length on the back. The exceptions, 
excluding some burials which had been greatly disturbed, and the remains of several 
children, were as follows: 
Burial No. 5, adult, partly flexed on the left side. 
Burial No. 6, adult, the trunk lying on the right side, the lower extremities 
angling off from it. 
Burial No. 14, at full length, face down, the left arm brought up over the head, 
the forearm closely flexed. A later burial had removed from this skeleton the 
bones of the legs and feet. 
Burial No. 23, adult, trunk on the back, the right lower extremity straight, 
the left slightly flexed. 
Few burials were unaccompanied by objects of any sort, most of them having 
pottery in association. Incidentally it may be said that several skulls were found 
crushed by vessels that had been placed against them. 
With the exception of pottery, which will be described later, but few objects 
had been placed with the dead. 
Burial No. 3, the remains of an adolescent, which had been somewhat dis- 
turbed, had at the right elbow a bottle and, slightly scattered, twelve tubular beads 
of bone, each about an inch in length. 
