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E., 11 ; E. by N., 1 ; E. N. E., 1 ; N. E., 4 ; N. N. E., 3 ; N., 5 ; N. N. W., 1 ; 

 N. W., 1 ; W., 4 ; W. by S., 2 ; S. W. by W., 2 ; W. S. W., 1. 



Aboriginal disturbance. — Aboriginal disturbance includes burials cut through 

 by subsequent interments and possibly parts of skeletons accorded independent 

 burial. 



Late disturbance. — Under this head we include bones scattered by the plow, 

 by superficial digging previous to our investigation, by caving sand and inadvertent 

 disturbance by our men. 



Decayed and crushed remains. — We have thus designated all such as seemed 

 to be single skeletons which, through decay and through pressure were past deter- 

 mination as to sex, position and direction. It is not only possible but probable, 

 however, that fragmentary aboriginal burials and small layers of bones of various 

 individuals, badly decayed, have been included. 



Layers of uncremated bones. — Two such layers unconnected with cremated 

 remains were distinctly present in the mound. With one layer were five crania; 

 with the other, six. 



Calcined deposits. — Of the eight calcined deposits, the majority had fragments 

 of human bones showing no trace of fire, associated with them. Some contained 

 the remains, or parts of the remains of at least three individuals, while others 

 probably represented but one skeleton. 



Burial No. 117 was confined to the cremated remains of a child, a few remnants 

 of whose bones were unburnt. 



A small pocket of calcined bones lay uj>on decayed wood. 



We have elsewhere referred to two partially cremated skeletons. 



Skeletons in urns.— Vessel C, Burial No. 134, 15 feet N. E. by N. from the 

 center of the mound, with its base 20 inches from the surface, its top just beneath 

 the superficial shell layer, there 7 inches thick, was a vessel with incised decoration 

 below the margin and a faint complicated stamp on the body. Decayed wood was 

 above and below it. The vessel, crushed to fragments, was partly held together by 

 sand and shells. It contained the long bones of an adult skeleton, parallel to each 

 other and perpendicular to the base on which lay various smaller bones capped by 

 the skull. 



Near the preceding, forming a cluster with it and two other vessels, was a pot, 

 Burial No. 135, Vessel D, on its side, having complicated stamp ornamentation. 

 Decayed wood lay above and below it. Its condition was, if possible, worse than 

 that of the preceding. It contained bones of an adult arranged similarly to those 

 in Vessel C, and two polished stone hatchets, one rude quartz arrowhead, one 

 undecorated earthenware tobacco pipe, and one fresh-water mussel shell, fragmentary 

 through decay. 



Vessel F, Burial No. 137, one of the group, had a complicated stamped decor- 

 ation, but, unfortunately, was as fragmentary as its neighbors. It contained the 

 remains of an adult arranged as in the other vessels and a circular piece of soap- 

 stone with incised decoration, to be described under another heading. 



