234 Grave Mounds in North Carolina and East Tennessee. {March, 
This mound stood about seventy-five yards south of a triangular 
burial-pit described elsewhere. 
“The Jones Mound.’—This mound, situated on the farm of 
Mr. W. D. Jones in the same county, was found, upon investiga- 
tion, to be similar in form and construction to that just described. 
It was circular, thirty-two feet in diameter and but one foot in 
Fic. 1.--W. D. Jones Mound, Caldwell county, N. C. 
height; the pit was also circular, thirty-two feet im aa 
three feet deep. The bottom in this case was of can ae 
been baked hard by fire to the depth of two or mee one stot 
In this mound were found twenty-five skeletons a! : 
heap, the relative positions of which are shown In a he 
No. 1. A “squatter,” walled in with water-worn z 
face turned toward the west; no relics. 
