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monly the case with copper in Mt. Royal, the implement had been wrapped in bark 

 or some vegetable fabric, traces of which, in the last stage of decay, remained. 



Results of analyses of portions of this implement will be found in our note on 

 copper. 



About seven feet from the surface in a pocket of deep red sand were three 

 hatchets of polished stone, a bead of calcite with incomplete perforation, and a 

 copper piercing implement 11*2 inches in length, similar in shape to the one just 

 described. The usual decaying vegetable matter was present. 



During the investigation a number of small copper beads of various patterns 

 were met with, and a number of sheet copper ornaments of somewhat similar pat- 

 tern to those already described. Not any of the objects of copper found during our 

 investigation are exact duplicates in size and design as would surely be the case 

 had they been manufactured in numbers by Europeans for the purpose of sale or 

 barter. 



EARTHENWARE. 



During our second investigation a number of new and interesting types in 

 earthenware rewarded our labors, though no vessels of any considerable size were 

 represented. All but two had been perforated as to the base, either before or after 

 baking, and with but two or three exceptions, all were strictly of the mortuary 

 type so prevalent in Mt. Royal, though not of such fantastic designs as were noted 

 in other localities. 



In the western slope of the mound, six feet from the surface, lying above two 

 polished hatchets, were nine vessels of earthenware of which eight were intact 

 and in actual contact. Above them were the fragments of a bowl of earthenware 

 with stamped decoration. The entire bottom and portions of the side of this bowl 

 were wanting. We shall describe these vessels in order. 



1. A vessel resembling an inverted truncated cone with a height of 3'5 inches; 

 a maximum diameter of 25 inches; diameter of aperture, 2 inches. The rim is 

 beveled (Plate XVII, Fig. 1). 



2. A vessel someAvhat similar in shape, save as to the brim which extends 

 laterally. Height about 3 inches. Diameter at aperture, from which a rim extends 

 ■3 of an inch, is 2-7 inches. The base diameter is 1'2 inches (Plate XVII, Fig. 2). 



3. A dipper-shaped vessel, perforated for suspension near the extremity of 

 the handle. Length of bowl with handle, 5 - 5 inches. Depth of bowl about 1-5 

 inches. Maximum width, 3 - 2 inches (Plate XVII, Fig. 3). 



4. A curious vessel consisting of two hemispherical cups united as shown in 

 Plate XVII, Fig. 4, each having a diameter at aperture of about 2 - 8 inches, and a 

 height of about 1*5 inches. Below the margin of the outer side of each is a perfora- 

 tion for suspension. This novel type, unfamiliar to experts to whom it has been sub- 

 mitted, to a certain extent suggests the double shell form of vessel figured by General 

 Thruston, 1 who states in a personal communication that, while several of that kind 



1 Antiquities of Tennessee, page 312. 



