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Burial No. 33, 36 feet S. E. by S., 13 inches down, skeleton of adolescent, 

 flexed on right side, head S. S. W. 



Burial No. 34, 38 feet S. E. by E., human bones disturbed by plow. 



Burial No. 35, 37 feet S. E. by S., 2 feet 11 inches down, skeleton of adolescent, 

 flexed on right side, head S. 



Burial No. 36, 43 feet S. E., at the bottom of a. distinct pit, 2 feet 5 inches 

 from the surface, were the remains of a skeleton too much decaj'ed for determination. 



Burial No. 37, 54 feet S. S. E., 20 inches down, skeleton of a dog. • 



An interesting feature in Mound A was the discovery of portions of a vessel 

 of red ware of aboriginal type and decoration, interiorly glazed in places. Earthen- 

 ware regularly glazed would indicate European contact. Professor Putnam writes 

 as follows of these fragments : 



" After consultation with Professors Jackson and Hill of the Chemical Depart- 

 ment [Harvard], I am more than ever convinced that the glazing on a portion of 

 the jar from the Georgia mound is entirely accidental. When you come to study 

 the pieces you will find that the whole interior of the jar has apparently been coated 

 with ashes mixed with water. Now suppose such a jar was heated on the inside by 

 putting in hot coals of wood ; the potash in the coating of ashes and the potash 

 contained in the wood, mixed with the slight silicious matter in the clay, would 

 make an accidental glazing. 



" It does not seem possible that this glazing is formed by lead or salt, for the 

 slight burning of the pottery is not sufficient to form a glazing of either of these 

 substances ; much more heat would be required. 



" Professors Jackson and Hill were sure that it would be useless to analyze the 

 glazing, as we should have to scrape off nearly all there is to get enough to make 

 a good analysis, and we should probably get only negative results. I therefore 

 consider that this was simply an accidental case. of partial glazing caused by some 

 special burning of the pottery. The fact that the glazing is confined to one portion 

 of the lip of the jar and to a part just below the lip on the bulge indicates that the 

 hot coals were in contact with that portion only. If the jar was inverted over hot 

 coals for the purpose of heating the inside (as was evidently common in ancient 

 times), it might easily have fallen over in the fire and the coals have tumbled into 

 this portion of the jar." 



The various forms of burial and their distribution in Mound A are worthy of 

 attention. It will be noticed that in no part of the mound, outside of calcined 

 remains, among which were parts of adult skeletons seemingly belonging to males, 

 were skeletal remains of adult males — the skeletons being exclusively those of 

 women, adolescents, children and infants — and that in one portion of the mound burial 

 vases exclusively contained skeletons of infants, unaffected by fire, while in other 

 portions cinerary urns were present filled with fragments of calcined human 

 skeletons. Again we see pockets of calcined human remains and skeletal -remains 

 of woman and of children unaffected by fire and not included in vessels of 

 earthenware. 



