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depth of 5 inches in the arc of a circle to meet the east end of the 

 north wall post line. In the excavation a notch had been cut in this 

 line of post molds, beyond the third post mold from the corner, so 

 that one may see the form of the old trench in which the posts were 

 set. This notch was four posts wide and showed the old trench as a 

 vertical section in its west wall. On the bottom of the notch the 

 lower ends of the four molds were almost entirely cut out, but were 

 still visible. 



Mound Area Outside of Structures No. 1 and No. 2 



Under the mound, and resting on the yellow-clay hardpan, but 

 outside of Structures Nos. 1 and 2, numerous stone piles were found. 

 These were made of sandstone pebbles from 3 to 6 inches in diameter 

 with from 8 to 40 or more in a pile. These were designated as Fea- 

 tures Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 18. The location of each is shown 

 in the plat of the area, figure 12. These stones were laid close to- 

 gether in the pile, showing no definite order. That they were inten- 

 tionally laid seems certain, but their purpose was not apparent- 

 There were no ashes or midden material in association with the 

 stones and nothing gave a clue to their use. 



Some 15 feet east of the north end of Structure No. 1 a burial was 

 found 12 inches below the hardpan floor. A circular pit about 28 

 inches in diameter had been dug some 15 inches down from the 

 mound surface and four flat limestone rocks, shown in plate 29, «, 

 had been placed on the floor of the pit. The body of a child, which 

 was seemingly in anatomical order, had been placed on the stone 

 floor. The preservation was so poor that it was difficult to deter- 

 mine certainly the method of burial. All that remained was four 

 ribs, scattered toes, and finger bones. Above the burial, but seem- 

 ingly in association with it, were eight conch-shell beads and other 

 fragments of shell. 



Feature No. 12 was a burned area 26 feet long and 6 feet wide 

 under the north end of the mound. This area showed baked clay and 

 burned cane and paralleled the line of rocks designated as Feature 

 No. 9. The pit at the western extremity of this burned area con- 

 tained burned animal bones mingled with burned clay. 



About 100 feet north of the mound a trench 20 feet wide and 100 

 feet long, running east and west, was uncovered down to the hardpan, 

 to see if the village had extended in this direction. This trench re- 

 vealed scattered post molds and crossed the western edge of what 

 seemed to be a rectangular structure. When it was exploited to the 

 east as shown in the plot of the trench system (fig. 11) the post-mold 

 pattern shown in plate 28, b, and designated Feature No. 23 was 

 revealed. These molds were in the hardpan 18 inches under the 



