FOURTH REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I907 93 



This grave unlike the others seems to have been an original burial, 

 that is to say, the earth had not been overturned more than once. 

 The other graves seem to have been used several times, the bones 

 being removed for ossuary burial or other disposition, and a new 

 body interred therein. 



The skeleton was that of an adult male of mature years, (about 

 60). A heron's lower mandible was found at the forehead as if 

 it had been used as a hairpin. 



The earth had packed about the limbs and neck and left in the 

 clay-mixed sand a cast of the body. A black phosphate surrounded 

 the bones, the remains of the animal tissue. 



Measurements of position gave the following data : knee to back, 

 17" ; atlas to os innominata 2' 5" ; atlas to end of tarsus, 3' 2". 



Orientation : head east ; face, south ; left side, flexed. 



Bones in good condition except those of the two lower arms. 



Burial J. Another grave was opened at 44' on the west side. 

 It was 30" deep and contained only a few decayed vertebrae and 

 a deposit of grave dirt. The larger bones had probably been re- 

 moved for ossuary burial. 



Burial 8. At 49' on the west side, grave 8 was found. It 

 was 19" deep and contained a few decayed bones, part of a 

 femur and the crushed remains of a child's skull. Over this grave 

 was a layer of shale slabs. At the south end of the grave was a 

 boulder 12" in diameter. It was 18" below the surface. 



The skull lay with the top east. A large piece of shale lay 

 directly beneath the pelvis. Between this grave and the next was 

 an ash bed y" deep. 



Burial 9. At 50' in trench i touching the line on the cast side, 

 20" below the surface, the top of another ossuary was uncovered. 

 Excavation disclosed a bone pile 48" from north to south and 33" 

 from east to west. 



Unlike burial 5, the first ossuary, this was a promiscuous heap 

 of bones cast without order upon a grou]) of 20 skulls arranged in 

 an oval. Four inferior maxillae, 6 broken femora, q humeri, a 

 number of ulnae, radii, vertebrae, an astragalus, tarsus, ribs and 

 pelvis were found in the heap over the skulls. 



Of the 20 skulls, 10 were male and 9 female. Parts of another 

 skull were found, but the sex could not be determined. 



Over the ossuary was a glacial boulder about 18" by t8" and a 

 covering of shale and fossilifcrous Chemung rock. 



