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and trenches, each about 3 feet across, were continued in the direction of the center 

 until the exact margin of the mound was located. 



Contrary to the usual course of events in our work in this district, Avhen the 

 trenches had gone 2 or 3 feet into the mound, earthenware vessels were met with in 

 the western and southern parts. These vessels were not accompanied by sherds and 

 did not lie together in a deposit, but had been placed here and there, singly. 



After this discovery, the trenches in the western half of the mound were joined 

 and the total demolition of that part of the mound began. 



Shortly after this junction of the trenches on the western side, the trenches in 

 two-thirds of the eastern side were joined and continued until the mound was dug 

 down. 



Not until the trenches had gone a distance of 22 feet into the remaining third of 

 the eastern part, was anything of interest met with, when the discovery of a vessel 

 of earthenware, caused the union of the remaining trenches. 



Soon after the first junction of the trenches, that is 2 or 3 feet in from the 

 margin, burials were met with in the W., NW. and SW. outskirts of the mound and, 

 later, in part of the eastern portion. While burials were met with here and there in 

 the parts of the mound we have referred to, none was found in the remaining portion 

 of the eastern part until the center of the mound had almost been reached. 



In all, thirty-five burials were counted by us, the majority in small bunches, 

 though solitary skulls were present and, rarely, two skulls together. 



The flexed burial was not noted. 



Neither in our field notes, where the burials are described one by one, nor in 

 our amplified notes, always written immediately at the end of the investigation of 

 the mound, do we find any reference to cranial compression in connection with the 

 burials in this mound. Neither do we recall the discovery of any cranial flattening, 

 and it is our belief that none was met with. 



The sand in this mound was not discolored in any way. It was remarkably 

 dry and caved readily. On the surface laj' a single mass of lime rock, and in the 

 mound were a few similar masses unassociated with burials, while twice only, burials 

 lay beneath them. A few oyster-shells were with two other burials, but not in the 

 way we have noted in places to the westward where masses of shells lay over bones. 



With one burial was sand colored with hematite. Another burial lay near 

 three vessels of earthenware, while mica and a pebble lay together with human 

 remains. 



Unassociated with human bones, together, were : four pebble-hammers ; two 

 flat pebbles ; eight chips of chert ; seven very rude arrowheads or knives, of the 

 same material, three with points missing. 



In another place where no bones were met with, though they may have disap- 

 peared through decay, were : a long flake, intended for a knife ; an arrowhead or 

 knife ; another with the point missing ; a small knife with curved edge. All these 

 were of chert. 



There were also in the mound : a large tooth of a fossil shark, showing no 



