AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 505 



Grave LVII, pit 102, in trench 16 at 15' on the west side lay on 

 the trench hne. The skeleton found 24" below the surface 

 was badly root-eaten and crumbled. The superciliary ridges over 

 the orbits of the crushed skull indicated that the remains were those 

 of a male. At the top of the skull were two typical Ripley-Erie pots. 

 Orientation : head north, face east, left side, flexed. 



Grave LVIII, pit 103, was a burial at 2.0' in the middle of trench 

 16. At 22" below the surface of the ground was found a crumbling 

 root-eaten skeleton of an adult. At the occiput was a broken pot 

 of unusual form and decoration. The skeleton lay with the head 

 north, face west, right side and flexed. 



Grave LIX, pit 104, was over the trench line of trench 16 at 24'. 

 There was a light deposit of bone dust but no " grave dirt." 



Grave LX, pit 105, west beyond LIX was outside of trench 16 

 in a projecting point of sand. A disintegrating skeleton was found 

 24" below the surface. The bones were crumbled so that it was 

 impossible to determine the position of them. A stone pipe of 

 unusual form was found on the east side of the excavation. The 



Pot from grave LX, pit 105 



pipe, F472, seems to be an attempt to represent a bear's claw \see 

 pi. 22, fig. 4] . 7" west of the pipe was a pottery vessel of an un- 

 usual form, F471 [text fig. i6]. Between the pot and the pipe lay 

 a deposit of bone dust. 



Grave LXI, pit ic6, at 44' on the east side of trench 15 was a 

 grave with top dimensions of 66" by 72". At 56" below the surface 

 the grave bottom was found in the clay stratum. At the bottom 

 was a black deposit of animal phosphate, black and clayey. There 



