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with the burial. The burial was covered with nine limestone rocks. 

 It is designated on the plat as Feature No. 14. In this burial the 

 legs were drawn up, the heels close to the base of the spine. The 

 arms were at the sides and the forearms across the stomach. The 

 vertebrae were all in place except the axis and atlas, which were 

 missing. The skull was not found. This skeleton is shown in plate 

 25,(2. 



Inside of the area of Structure No. 2, near the center of the west- 

 ern wall and some 24 inches above the original humus line, many flat 

 stones were found. Some were widely scattered and some were in 

 irregularly placed groups in squares 8.7 and 7.7. Some of the stones 

 in square 7.7, designated Feature No. 14, cover Burial No. 2. The 

 stones on this level, in combination with the remains of a baked- 

 clay floor, lead to the assumption of another level of occupancy above 

 Structure No. 2. The stones were in general disarray. Some were 

 on the edge of the floor and apparently had served the same purpose, 

 of supporting vertical posts, as those found at lower levels. The 

 stones which were discovered at the higher level had been disturbed 

 by cultivation, since the present surface was, at a maximum, only 8 

 inches above them. Some of them even protruded through the earth. 

 The stones may therefore represent a second structure built above 

 Structure No. 2, i. e., the third and perhaps the last structure built 

 in this northern portion of the mound. 



Structure No. 2 



Continued excavation in the northern section of the mound revealed 

 another structure, erected on a subterranean floor, designated as Fea- 

 ture No. 27 on the mound-floor plat, figure 12, and shown in detail 

 in figure 14. The area of this floor was 27 feet by 41 feet. It had 

 been excavated to a depth of 12 inches into the yellow clay hardpan. 

 As usual, a trench had been dug and vertical posts seated at intervals 

 in it. The trench was about 12 inches wide and from 18 to 24 inches 

 deep. Because these trenches were in undisturbed hardpan no hori- 

 zontal logs were needed and no stone chinking was required. None 

 was found within this structure. The individual posts were about 

 4 inches in diameter and had been well seated in the clay-filled 

 trenches. 



When the structure was discovered a trench some 2 feet wide and 

 3 feet deep was excavated outside the line of post molds, to give an 

 opportunity for studying the construction of the building, and to 

 permit the easy removal of the earth from the structure. It is be- 

 lieved that the small end of each vertical post was bent toward the 

 center of the structure to meet the top of a similarly situated post in 

 the opposite wall. The tops of this pair of posts were then lashed 



