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REPORT ON NEUTER CEMETERY 



The knoll in which the cemetery occurred is composed of 

 coarse gravel, and it was while excavating this gravel for use as 

 road-metal that the first graves were found. The gravel is 

 covered with a layer of clay and gravelly loam, which varies in 

 thickness from a few inches to forty inches at its greatest depth. 

 At most points it is about thirty inches thick. Covering the 

 entire gravel deposit and separating it from the loamy top soil is 

 a thin but well defined stratum of fine gravel, and on this layer, 



Yellow 



most'of the skeletons were found. Above this, and forming the 

 bottom layer of the soil is a layer of tough red clay, varying in 

 thickness from a mere streak to ten inches. Above this is a 

 layer of yellow clay, topped by gravelly loam in a good state of 

 cultivation. The section shows these strata. Nearly all the 

 graves penetrated the loam, the yellow clay and the red clay and 

 reached as far as the fine gravel. Accordingly the depth of the 

 graves varied with the thickness of the upper layers, from 30 

 inches to 44 inches. 



