310 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
ings were), and burials were found in all such places, even in the barnyard and 
under the stable, sometimes scattered, sometimes a few together, in one instance 
the remains of four children, separate but within the limits of a single trial-hole 
somewhat enlarged. 
At the Starwood Place, as elsewhere, was noted the growth of the site above 
the earlier burials. For instance, the skeleton of an infant lay just 5 feet below 
the surface. Sixteen inches above this burial was a great fire-place of burnt clay, 
the hard material being somewhat convex at the under surface. Above this fire- 
place was a thin stratum of clay and then another fire-place. Above this latter 
fire-place was a stratum of clay surmounted by a layer of clay and charcoal com- 
bined. Finally, there was a thick stratum of clay extending to the present surface 
of the ground. All these strata were unbroken and had their origin after the time 
of the burial. 
It is not at all likely that the first fire-place above the burial of the child had 
any connection with it, inasmuch as other burials on the place were not found 
immediately beneath the fire-places, and moreover, the thickness of the baked clay 
of the fire-place and its extent, argued a more long-continued fire and a larger one 
than would have been accorded a single burial. 
Presumably a large fire-place for culinary purposes had been made by scooping 
out a certain amount of soil (hence the convex lower surface of the baked clay), 
and the presence of the skeleton of the child beneath was purely an accident. 
Ninety-five interments were encountered by us at the Starwood Place, of which 
fifty-three were of adults, thirty-nine were of infants or of older children, and three 
were of adolescents. Included in these burials were several aboriginal disturbances. 
We omit from the enumeration a number of recent disturbances where parts 
of burials had been cut to pieces by seekers after pottery. 
With the exception of the aboriginal disturbances, and of some of the children’s 
burials which could not be determined, all interments encountered by us at the 
Starwood Place were at full length on the back with two exceptions, to which we 
shall refer later. 
Three of the extended burials had the legs crossed at the ankles; one, at the 
knees; one, the thighs crossed above the knees. 
Of the two burials spoken of as exceptions to the form prevailing at Neeley’s 
Ferry, one lay at full length, face down, while the other cannot be proved to be the 
burial of a human being, though it seems to us most probable that it was so, and 
hence we have included it in our list of burials from this place. 
In a little heap were finely burnt bone-dust and a few small fragments of cal- 
cined bone, much smaller than such fragments left after aboriginal cremation usually 
are. If the cremation included the entire skeleton of an adult, the work had been 
very thoroughly performed. Probably the ashes were what was left from the 
incineration of a child. This little pile of burnt bones lay partly covered with an 
inverted bowl, on the base of which, standing upright, was a bottle. This whole 
deposit lay at the feet of a skeleton. 
