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diameter of .75 of one inch. Smaller beads of copper were found in considerable 

 numbers. 



A large bead of wood, 1.6 inches by 1.3 inches, spheroidal in shape, had been 

 overlaid with sheet copper, portions of which still adhere. 



Seven pins or piercing implements of copper, the longest 13 inches in length, 

 were found variously associated at different depths. All seem to have been made 

 by hammering sheet copper into the required shape. 



A disc of limestone, 2 inches in diameter, with a central perforation, overlaid 



with sheet copper on one side, and a somewhat smaller 

 disc of shell or of limestone of the same type, came 

 from different portions of the mound. With the smaller 

 was an earthenware pipe. 



Two discs, probably of limestone, overlaid with 

 sheet copper, with shanks extending from the lower 

 central portions, were found together near human 

 remains and were doubtless used as ear plugs. A some- 

 what similar ornament is figured by us x in Part I as 

 coming from Mt. Royal. 



About 13.5 feet from the surface, near together, 

 associated with human remains and a mass of red pig- 

 ment, were two cones of wood, 3.2 inches and 1.7 

 inches in height, respectively, each with base diameter 

 of 1 inch. These cones had been overlaid with thin 

 sheet copper which had preserved the wood. Portions 

 of the coating were still adherent. From the base of 

 the larger cone projected a pin .9 of one inch in length, 

 exactly fitting into a socket having a depth of .6 of one 

 inch in the base of the smaller cone. This pin was 

 not an integral portion of the cone from which it pro- 

 jected, but had been let into a small socket and secured 

 with bitumen. 



These interesting specimens, unique so far as we 

 know, were carefully allowed to dry and then treated 

 with shellac. 



It is not unlikely that these objects form two 

 parts of an ear ornament, one worn on either side of 

 the lobe, the pin passing through the perforated portion 

 (Fig. 38). The difference between the length of the 

 pin and the depth of the socket would be about made 

 up by the thickness of the lobe of the ear. 

 During the investigation an ornament, or, more probablv, two somewhat simi- 

 lar ornaments, of sheet copper, were laid bare at a depth from the surface of about 



1 Op. cit. 



Fig. 38. — Ornament of wood overlaid 

 with sheet copper. Grant mound. 

 (Full size.) 



