ARCH^:OLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY. 
Mound Explorations by W. K. Moorehead.'— Mound No. 
36.— This mound is situated on high ground, overlooking the Scioto 
River, in Ross County, Ohio. We commenced work upon it March 
21, 1889, by making a trench twenty-two feet wide on the smooth side, 
cutting entirely off that side. At a point about ten feet distant from 
the south edge we came upon a group of fifteen skeletons deposited in 
black earth on the original surface of the ground. They were not 
buried with any regularity. The mound above the skeletons was com- 
posed of yellow clay. It w^as with the greatest difficulty that we pre- 
served two of the skulls entire. Near the south side of these bones, or 
where they commenced, was found a deposit of two hundred pottery 
fragments. When buried, the vessels which these fragments represent 
were evidently whole, but the pressure of the earth above had broken 
them into small pieces. To the west was found the skeleton of a child, 
tolerably well preserved. Above this was a layer of charcoal nearly a 
foot thick which extended northeast through the mound. All the 
other skeletons were placed about a foot below this. The charcoal was 
in pieces about as large as one's fist, and laid regularly, as if short logs 
had been thrown in and covered while burning. 
There were no objects placed with these skeletons save in two in- 
stances. One skeleton situated in the centre of the mound had, be- 
tween the thigh bones (femur), a number of objects ; a stone tube in 
an unfinished condition, a slate ornament with two perforations, a 
banded slate ornament with one perforation, and a stone celt. Just 
above these, and laid in two rows, parallel with the bones, were ten 
flint arrowheads made of the black chalcedony found at Flint Ridge. 
These arrows were placed in two rows lying against the bones on each 
side. With another skeleton was found another deposit of the follow- 
ing objects, in the order in which they were found : 
A large hematite celt, about four inches long, three inches wide, and 
weighing half a pound ; a stone tube of steatite, five inches in length, 
with large perforation lengthwise drawn to a small aperture at one end 
(this is similar to those figured by Squier and Davis, who opened 
mounds in this neighborhood fort} years ago) ; two beautiful leaf- 
shaped chalcedony spear-heads ; above them was a celt and chisel of 
