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flexed position with the knees drawn up close to the chin. The 

 larger bones were in a fair condition but the smaller ones including 

 the ribs had entirety decayed. At the occiput was a clay vessel 

 with a small rim break. An inch from the skull to the northwest 

 was a crumblin.s: turtle carapace with 4 perforations [see pi. 34, fig. 

 11]. A flint and chunk of iron lay beneath the chin as if they had 

 been clutched in one hand and a small celt was in the angle formed 

 by the flexed right arm. Four triangular arrowheads lay at the top 

 of the skull, a point was found in the vertebrae below the atlas and 

 another between the tibia and fibula of the right leg. Field measure- 

 ments of the skull gave the bizigomatic length 4 1/16" and the 

 structural hight 7 14/16", the distance from the glabella to the 

 aveolar border of the 'superior maxillary 3 9/32", the nasal index 

 was about 66.6 and the cephalic index 64.3. Orientation: head 

 southeast, face southwest, left side, flexed. 



Grave LXXIII, pit 118, on the west side of trench 15 at 82' was 

 60" wide, ^2" long and 48" deep. It contained 2 skeletons one of 

 which was badly decayed. The conditions seemed to indicate that 

 the graves had been intruded and that the better pre^erved skeleton 

 was more recent. The older skeleton lay with the skull toward the 

 southwest, the face south-southeast and on the right side. The 

 better preserved skeleton headed northeast, faced southeast and lay 

 flexed on the left side. 



Grave LXXIV, pit 119, in trench 17 on the east side at the 

 beginning was 36" in depth. It held the crumbling remains of a 

 skeleton and a broken pot. This first or upper grave intruded 

 another grave, the bottom of which was 3" lower. Pot F511 was 

 found in the lower grave. In both cases the vessels were back of 

 the skulls. Owing to the condition of the bones it was impossible to 

 determine the position of the skeletons. 



Grave LXXV, pit 120, on the east side of trench 17 at 17' was 

 42" deep and contained the remains of a male. The grave soil 

 from the top to 30" down was heavily intermixed with carbonaceous 

 matter and ash. At 30" a layer of clay 6" thick was struck and 

 beneath it the skeleton. At a point midway between the lower jaw 

 and knee was found a trumpet pipe of the flat flaring rimmed type. 

 F536 [pi. 31, fig. 6]. It was imbedded in a cementlike composition 

 of ashes, sand and gravel. The skull lay to the west, the face south 

 and the skeleton lay flexed on the right side. 



Grave LXXVI, pit 121, on the west side of trench 17 at 20' was 

 42" deep and contained the crumbling remains of a male skeleton. 



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