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down. Skeleton was that of an infant 8 or 9 years old. The skull 

 was crushed. The body lay in a grave outlined by a row of flat 

 stones placed upright on edge. Orientation: head, east-southeast; 

 face north-northwest; right side, flexed. Body lay east-southeast 

 by north-northwest. From top of head to end of toes 2' 3". Black 

 phosphate in grave. Ash pit south of skull at 18". Grave soil 

 much disturbed. 



Burial 4, was found at 33' on the east side of the trench. The 

 depth was 2^" and the grave outline 60" by 35". A decayed 

 male skeleton lying in the usual flexed position. Orientation : head, 

 south-southeast; face west-southwest, left side. The skeleton as 

 it lay measured 36'' from top of head to heel and 15'' from knee 

 to back. The superincumbent grave soil was much disturbed. An 

 ash pit 2^' in diameter and i' deep was found just south of the 

 grave. 



Between graves 3 and 4 there was a streak of disturbed earth 

 30" deep, as if the entire ground had once been turned over to this 

 depth. There was a thin separating wall as if there had been two 

 other graves here. 



Burial 5. At 40'' on the east side of trench i the tops of two 

 boulders were struck and a few inches north of them a heavy bed 

 of white ashes. Beneath the ash bed, 11" from the surface of the 

 ground the tops of several skulls were touched. Careful excavation 

 revealed a small ossuary containing the remains of parts of 14 

 skeletons. 



The bones were placed in a rectangular heap measuring north- 

 east to southwest,"^ 2' 4'', by northwest to southeast, i' 8''. The 

 large bones, femora, tibiae, etc., lay northwest and southeast. Six 

 skulls were arranged around the top of the ossuary and beneath 

 them were four others, all broken. When the bones were removed 

 27 femora were found which would indicate parts of 14 individuals. 

 The earth had packed about the outer bones and had not fallen 

 into the interstices of the bone heap below. The area of the dis- 

 turbed earth was, in diameter, 4' 6" . The two boulders south of 

 the ossuary had probably been placed as hidden markers. Large 

 stones had not been encountered before in the sand of the knoll. 



Just beyond the ossuary to the south was a large ash pit 48" in 

 diameter. 



In depth the ossuary was 16" , or from the top of the ground to 

 the bottom, 27". 



Burial 6. This grave was discovered at 37' outside of trench 

 I, on the west side. It was 36'' deep, 36" wide and 55" long. 



