360 ANTIQUITIES OF THE ST. FRANCIS, WHITE, 
All were dug into by us to a considerable extent. In one was a skull in decay- 
ing fragments, near the surface, and in another part of the mound was an un- 
decorated bottle of shell-tempered ware (as was all the ware found by us on the 
Lauratown Farm), having a stone pitted on each side over the opening where a 
neck formerly had been. 
In another of these mounds were fragments of a skull associated with a pot 
and a bottle, both undecorated, each having parts missing. 
About one-quarter mile in a southerly direction from this series of mounds is 
another, 3 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter, also greatly extended by cultiva- 
tion. On its surface were numerous bits of pottery, and we were informed that 
vessels. had been taken from this mound. If such is the case, the mound presum- 
ably had been a domiciliary one with superficial burials, all of which were removed 
by former diggers or else by cultivation, for all that rewarded our search, which 
was a thorough one, were fragments of an undecorated vessel with loop-handles. 
The southernmost field of the farm, which adjoins the field in which is the 
mound last described, is thickly strewn with midden debris, including great quanti- 
ties of pottery in small fragments, none of which, however, bears decoration of any 
interest, with the exception of several bits colored bright red. 
From the surface of this field was gathered a considerable collection of arrow- 
heads and small chisels, some neatly made. There was also picked up an ear-plug of 
pottery of a well-known form, namely, that of a pin with thick body and large head. 
In the southern part of the field, where debris lay thickest, nine trial-holes 
were put down without result in a slight rise of the ground which it was hoped 
might prove to be a cemetery. 
Forty trial-holes, some of which were considerably enlarged, were sunk in the 
extreme southwestern corner of this field, and came upon four burials which were, 
with one exception, so widely apart, and were accompanied by artifacts of so little 
interest, that the digging was discontinued. 
In a pit, about 2 feet down, lay a skeleton at full length on the back, whose 
lower extremities had displaced the upper part of a skeleton also originally ex- 
tended. With this latter burial was a rude, asymmetrical, wide-mouthed water- 
bottle without decoration, and 2 feet from it a bottle which had been turned on its 
side at the time of the disarrangement of the burial to which it belonged. This 
bottle, undecorated, with a long and slightly flaring neck, was carelessly made, 
being irregular in form as to both body and neck. On the right shoulder and chest of 
the disturbing burial was a rude bowl whose sole decoration was a series of notches 
placed obliquely around the rim. 
Another burial, an adult at full length on the back, was without artifact. 
The skeleton of a child, somewhat disarranged by a blow from a spade in the 
hands of one of our diggers, had at the skull a pot and a bowl, both small. The 
bowl bears traces of red pigment inside and out. The pot has two loop-handles at 
opposite sides, and vertical, notched fillets opposed to each other, above one of which 
are two slight projections of the rim, while the other has but a single one. 
