HOLMES ANNIVERSARY VOLUME 



that when the mound was built, yellow sand and earth from the sur- 

 rounding fields were piled in a circle, then covered with the stones, 

 then in turn piled with the black loam. 



On the base of the mound, slightly within the beginning of the 

 stone layer, were artificial depressions that had been used as fire-pits. 

 Seventeen of these were found, the largest of which was one foot in 

 diameter and the smallest three inches, while their depth below the 

 base ranged from four inches to two feet six inches. A table of these, 

 with their contents, follows: 



PITS IN THE FLOOR OF THE MOUND 



No. 



Diameter 



Depth 



Material Contained 



I 



12" 



I' 





Charcoal, mica; slab of mica on top. 



2 



IO" 





/ 



Charcoal. 



3 



IO" 





4" 



Charcoal and carbonized twigs, resting on which 

 was a slab of mica, and in the mass a rough, un- 

 worked stone, a small irregular piece of burnt 

 clay, and fragments of burnt bone. 



4 



3" 





4" 



Charcoal; mica on top. 



5 



8" 



I' 



3" 



Charcoal; four small pieces of mica. 



6 



rA" 



2' 



6" 



Filled with discolored earth and small pieces of 

 charcoal, burnt deer-bone, potsherds, small 

 pieces of flint. 



7 



9" 



I' 



u" 



Discolored earth and charcoal. 



8 



6" 



I' 



3" 



Filled with mixed earth and charcoal, with a piece 

 of mica on top. 



9 



9" 



I' 



3" 



Filled with mixed earth; charcoal. 



IO 



10" 



I' 



8" 



Filled with earth and charcoal containing animal 

 bones and potsherd. 



II 



19" 



I' 



9" 



Charcoal and earth mixed, and pieces of bone; 

 large pieces of charcoal and small piece of mica 

 on top. 



12 



6" 



2' 



i" 



Ashes, burnt deer-bones, mica, potsherd, charcoal. 



13 



5H" 



I' 



i" 



Mica, charcoal, and burnt animal bones. 



14 



7" 



I' 



3" 



Charcoal, potsherds, burnt animal bones. 



15 



6" 



I' 



4" 



Charcoal, potsherds, burnt animal bones. 



16 



6" 



I' 



3" 



Charcoal, potsherds, mica. 



17 



7" 



I' 



7" 



Charcoal. 



Parts of seven human skeletons were found in the mound, all of 

 them in a very fragmentary condition. 



The first evidence of a skeleton was the tibia of a child, found three 

 inches below the surface, where it had been turned up by the plow. 

 The other bones of this skeleton were not found. 



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