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angles^ having- indications of bastions or towers on them. The gate 

 was at the south and the area was less than two acres. The other is 

 circular and about 800 feet around. The relics are" of an early type. 

 They are one and one half miles farther up the valley than the next. 

 — Cheney, p. 44 



33 An angular work is on a precipitous hill 125 feet high. It is 

 in the form of a parallelogram^ 290 by 62^ feet. In the center of 

 the south wall is a wide gateway, " with elevated mounds upon each 

 side to guard the entrance. . . Along the buttress, extending 

 upon the northern side of the hill, were vast masses of stones," ap- 

 parently for defense. Great quantities of relics have been found. — 

 Cheney, p. 43, pi. 7. Dr Larkin places this a quarter of a mile from 

 Ellington village, but Mr Reynolds assigns it to the Boyd farm, two 

 miles above Ellington. There are stone relics. — U. S. bur. of eth. 

 p. 508. Mr Cheney's plan appears in fig. 19, on a scale of 250 feet 

 to the inch. 



34 Two circular works 52 rods apart, are one and one half miles 

 above Ellington. Each is about 650 feet around, and the ditch 

 seemed inside. — Cheney, p. 43. Two circular works were on the 

 north side of Clear creek two miles above Ellington, on F. Law- 

 rence's farm. One was 190 feet in diameter. Opposite these, on 

 the south side of the creek, was the large parallelogram work last 

 described, two miles above Ellington. Mr Reynolds gave a 

 plan of one of these circular works, which is essentially reproduced 

 in fig. 90. Another fort was almost beside it. — U. S. bur. of eth, 

 p. 508, fig. 334 



35 The " Old fort " is an elliptic work in ElHngton on the north 

 bank of Clear creek, on a hill, the top of which it surrounds. 

 The area is 175 by 320 feet and the two gateways, each 6 feet wide, 

 are on the north and southeast sides. — Cheney, p. 43, pi. 6, fig. 2. 

 Mr Cheney's plan appears in fig. 5, on a scale of 250 feet to the 

 inch. It is on Sect's farm, just north of the village of Ellington. 

 Mr Reynolds saw but one gateway and gives a plan. It contains 3 

 acres. Remeasurement makes it 170 by 270 feet. A handcuff and 

 part of an iron kettle have been found. He also reported a circular 

 work of two acres in the village. This was south of the last, and on 



