2 0. C. Marsh—Description of an Ancient Sepulchral Mound. 
the upper terrace between two branches of the Licking River. 
They were well described by Atwater, in 1820, who regarded 
them as dorks of defense ;* and subsequently by Squier and 
Davis, who, owever, consi ered them _ —— enclosures." 
ing to American antiquities. In the course of our investiga- 
tions a sepulchral mound was opened, which proved to be in 
many respects the most interesting one of the kind yet examined. 
Mounds of this class received from Squier and Davis much less 
attention than the smaller “ Alter Mounds,” as the latter usually 
contain more relics of ancient art. ‘These authors, moreover, 
examined none of those belonging to the Mewirk group of 
works, although the mounds in that vicinity appear to present 
e points of difference from those of other localities. For 
be given than would otherwise be necessary. The mound 
selected for examination was about two and a half miles south 
of Newark, on the farm of Mr. Thomas Taylor, and was known 
in the neighborhood as the “Taylor Mound.” It was conical in 
form, about ten feet in height, and eighty in diameter at the 
, these being about the av erage dimensions of the burial 
mounds in that vicinity. It was situated on the summit of a 
ridge, in the midst of a stately forest. On the mound itself 
several oak trees, two and a half to three feet in diameter, were 
: Dr. . Wilso essrs. 
Shrock, of Newark, «ny Charles W. Chandler, Esq., of Zanes- 
ville hb are all much interested in the local antiquities of that 
region | 
An ‘excavation about eight feet in diameter was first made git 
* Transactions American A ntiquarian or vol. i, p. 126. 
* Smithsonian Contributions, vol. i, p. 67 
