AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 



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Grave XXXV, pit 63, in trench 9 was at 30' on the east side. It 

 was 40" below the surface and contained the crumbling skeleton of 

 an aged male. In the left foot between the metatarsal bones was a 

 triangular arrowhead. The knees were drawn up within ii" of 

 the chin and in the intervening space were 10 flint and jasper arrow 

 points, a piece of flint, a chisellike chunk of iron, an oval flint blade, 



Fig. 10 Diagram showing position of articles in grave 

 XXXV 



a lump of red ocher and a smoothed pebble. The grave lay in the 

 soft shifting sand of the hillside and most of the bones were 

 crushed. Marks on the occiput seemed to indicate that the scalp 

 had been cut, there being a deep circular incision in the bone. 

 Orientation : head southeabt, face northeast, right side, flexed po- 

 sition. P'igure 10 shows the relative position of the objects as found 

 in the grave. 



Grave XXXVI, pit 64, trench 9, was at 33' on the west side. 

 This grave was 25" deep and contained the crumbling skeleton of 

 an adult and a broken pot of poorly tempered clay, probably hastily 

 baked for the burial, and 5 triangular arrowheads. The skeleton 

 lay with its skull to the east, face north, right side and flexed 

 position. 



Grave XXXVII, pit 65, was in trench 12 at the beginning on the 

 west side and contained the skeleton of a female. The bones were 

 in a poor condition and the skull was crushed on the upper left 

 side. A little to the south-southwest before the orbits was a pottery 

 vessel in perfect condition except for an ancient rim break. The 

 soil in trench 12 was a loose gravel-mixed sand and to prevent this 

 from sliding back into the excavation a large hole had to be dug. 

 A careful examination of the grave top before the grave filling was 

 removed gave the top dimensions as 48" by 58". The skeleton lay 



