1886.) The Peabody Museum's Explorations in Ohio. 1023 
basin-shaped, small in size, and carefully made of flat stones. In 
them we found burnt human bones and ashes. In one was a pipe 
carved from stone which had been burnt with the body, and in 
another were fragments of a burnt copper ornament. 
I must give an account of the graves which were of particular 
interest. 
Grave No. 5 in our notebook was six feet six inches long, two 
feet nine inches wide, and one foot eight inches deep, measured 
from top of the stones. It was made with care, and the stones 
were carefully placed so as to form a substantial wall. The bot- 
tom was completely covered by four large, flat stones, on which 
the skeleton lay on its back. The skull was at the east end of 
_ the grave. When the body was put in the grave the knees were 
drawn up, the left hand rested on the body, and the right was laid 
straight along the side. The result was that the bones of the left 
hand were found in close contact with the upper ends of the tibiz, 
Which had fallen down between the femora. In the bones of each 
hand was a copper ear ornament like those I have mentioned. 
In the corner of the grave, near the bones of the left foot, was a 
large sea shell, from which the central portion had been cut away. 
_ Near this was a little cup carved out of stone, two canine teeth of 
a bear, each with lateral perforations, and in each tooth was the 
chalky remnant of a large pearl, Close to them was a large crys- 
tal of galena, and a knife made of a long flake of flint. On the 
Same side of the grave, nearly opposite to the shoulder and partly 
under the side stones, were eight of the copper ear ornaments in 
a bunch, and under them a long bone point. We did not dis- 
Cover them until we had taken out the skeleton and began to re- 
Move the stones, for it is our rule always to remove everything 
Placed by human hands, and to turn over every inch of dirt pre- 
viously disturbed. On taking up the flat stones, which were 
firmly imbedded in the gravel, and had their edges covered by the 
Side stones, we found the following articles, which must have 
been placed where we found them before the stones had been put 
down. Under the second stone (there was nothing under the 
first) near the center was a copper bead and smail thin pieces of 
iron, probably meteoric, but it has not yet been anatyzed, and it 
May prove to be bog iron which has formed in that place. As 
we have found several ornaments made of meteoric iron on the 
S of the mounds in this group, as well as two good-sized 
