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Burial No. 5. — Fragments of a skull in caved earth. 



Burial No. 6. — Certain bones of an adult, without cranium, 3 feet down. 



Burial No. 7. — 1.5 feet down, upright, was a vessel of about two quarts 

 capacity, with semi-globular body and flaring rim decorated with knobs around 

 the outer margin of the mouth. This vessel, badly broken by blows from a spade, 

 contained certain bones of a young child, namely : one-half of a lower jaw, one 

 clavicle, certain ribs, pelvic bones, and one piece of a vertebra. With these bones 

 was an undecorated, imperforate ornament of shell, a trapezoid in shape, 2 inches 

 long with an average breadth of 1.5 inches. Beneath the vessel were certain bones 

 of an adult. 



Burial No. 8. — A bunched burial consisting of a cranium with a few bones, all 

 apparently belonging to one person, 2 feet below the surface. 



Burial No. 9. — A bunch consisting of twelve tibiae, thirteen femurs and other 

 long bones, 34 inches down. Scattered among these bones were fragments of 

 earthenware representing part of a vessel. 



Burial No. 10. — A few scattered fragments of bone just beneath the surface. 



Burial No. 11. — A large, inverted vessel with rude line and punctate decora- 

 tion lay over the skull of a child, which surmounted a number of its bones heaped 

 together. This vessel, broken in small pieces by roots and pressure, was sent to the 

 Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Mass., as were the bones which, soaked in glue and 

 allowed to dry in place, are preserved, as to position, exactly as found. 



Burial No. 12. — This burial consisted of one-half of the lower jaw, some ribs 

 and a clavicle with the cranium to one side, all belonging to an adult. In associa- 

 tion were two shell beads each about .5 of an inch in diameter. 



Burial No. 13. — 2 feet down was a bunched burial consisting of one humerus, 

 bones of both forearms, two femurs, two tibia?, one fibula. 



Burial No. 14.— Isolated skull of an adult, 20 

 inches down. With it was a discoidal stone of ferru- 

 ginous claystone, 1.8 inches in diameter. On the 

 major, or lower, surface, are cut two concentric 

 circles (Fig. 9). Somewhat farther in the mound, 

 on the same plane, were pairs of femurs, humeri, 

 tibiae, radii, ulnae, all parallel to each other with a 

 cranium to one side and above. 



Burial No. 15. — On the same plane as Burial 

 No. 14 and 1 foot north of it, was a bunch of adult 

 long bones, all parallel. Just beyond was the skull 

 of an infant with a few bits of decayed bone. 



Burial No. 16. — Certain crushed and decayed 

 bones of an infant, including the cranium, lay 15 inches below the surface. With 

 the skull was an undecorated, imperforate disc of shell, 3 inches in diameter. 



Burial No. 17. — Two femurs, one tibia, one fibula, one humerus, the cranium, 

 all belonging to an adult, 29 inches down. All these were surmounted by two 

 fragments of a large vessel. 



