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Burial No. 14. — Some 15 inches above the ground floor an adult 

 burial, poorly preserved and partially disturbed, was found. The 

 head was to the north, but some of the bones were not in anatomical 

 order. A rock had been placed over the leg bones. 



Burial No. IS. — This burial, by which it was found, was very 

 similar to Burial No. 14. Both burials appear to have been bundle 

 burials of bones. Both are shown in plate 127, 0. 



Burial No. 16. — On the original ground floor the skull of an adult 

 was found covered by a rock. The rock, which was 7 inches long 

 and 6 inches wide, had crushed the skull. To the south, a larger 

 limestone rock covered a perforated shell bead. 



Burial No. 17. — Under the pile of stone on the mound floor, de- 

 scribed above, the fully extended skeleton of an adult was found. 

 The body had been placed on the back with the head to the north 

 and lay under the center of the pile of stones. A broken stone pipe 

 of Iroquoian design was found at the right shoulder and a flint point 

 was found under the right forearm. The artifacts from this burial 

 are shown in the lower row of plate 122, 0. 



Inasmuch as Burial No. 17 was the oldest skeleton in the mound — 

 that is, the one first deposited as the mound was built, and at the 

 same time was the best-preserved skeleton in the mound — the ques- 

 tion naturally arises as to why burials which were made later were 

 not in such good condition. It is believed that, with the exception of 

 Burial No. 17, and possibly Burial No. 1, all burials found here were 

 deposits of skeletal remains which had been previously exposed as 

 scaffold burials. If such be admitted, the lack of anatomical order 

 and separate deposit of skulls is easily understood. Further, such 

 scaffold burials may, in some cases, have resulted in the "bundle bur- 

 ials" which were found in this mound. The nearly complete dis- 

 appearance of skeletal material in some of these burials may be the 

 result of scaffold burials. The exposure of the bones for a period 

 of time would have left them in a condition for rapid deterioration 

 after they were placed in the mound. 



Conclusions 



From the evidence presented by the very small number of arti- 

 facts, and from the method of burial, it would appear that Site 

 No. 22 is more closely related to Site No. 21 than to any other ex- 

 plored in this survey. 



Site No. 23.— DOAN CAVE 



This cave was about 10 miles southwest of Clinton, on the Doan 

 property. The entrance was near the top of a high hill and was 

 very large, approximately 75 feet broad by 75 feet high at its outer 



