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There were in all eighty burials, as a rule closely flexed skeletons, though 

 loosely flexed skeletons, lone skulls, bunches of bones and scattered bones were met 

 with. No flattening was noticed in the case of any skull Avhose condition was such 

 as to allow determination. 



With burials in difterent parts of the mound were single vessels of earthenware ; 

 also a deposit of thirteen beneath a skeleton in the western part of the mound and 

 a deposit of three vessels, near human remains, a little east of the center. 



There were also in the mound, hones, hammer-stones, smoothing-stones, pebble- 

 hammers and kindred objects which it is hardly necessary to describe in detail. 



With one burial, among other things, were two rounded ends of "celts" which 

 had no doubt been put in suhstitutionally, a part for the whole, a most economical 

 method and one widely practised by the aborigines, as we have seen. 



There were present also a number of lanceheads and ^srojectile points, all but one 

 or two of which were more or less broken or unflnished. Three "celts" lay with 

 burials. Two of these had the cutting edge so badly chipped that prolonged grind- 

 ing would have been necessary before use. 



Forty -four water-worn pebbles, slingstones no doubt, lay together, and a num- 

 ber of burials had with them shell drinking cups mostly having the basal perfora- 

 tion. Some of these cups were carefully wrought, the whole beak of the shell being 

 ground away, giving the shell a graceful and cup-like appearance. 



Fig. 204. — Pendant of shell. Mound iif^ir Gieeii Point. (Full size.) 



Between two burials were : a number of decayed mussel-shells ; bits of sand- 

 stone ; unfinished shell gouges ; a rude cutting implement of chert ; a bone of a 

 small mammal ; fragments of shell ; two rectangular pieces of fossilized wood ; a 

 number of collumellfe of large marine univalves ; sections of columella? carefully 

 rounded as though for large beads in block ; sandstone hones ; fragments of various 

 rocks, mostly chert ; a small triangular piece of sandstone sharpened as for piercing ; 

 a barbed arrowpoint ; a small marine shell ; an object resembling in shape the tine 

 of a stag horn, a recent formation containing small marine shells ; two discs of shell, 

 each about 3.5 inches in diameter, evidently the first stage in the making of gorgets: 



