1024 The Peabody Museum's Explorations in Ohio. [December, 
pieces of an iron meteorite, I strongly suspect that this iron will 
Prove to be the same. Under the third stone, were two disks or 
halves of a copper ear ornament. These were several inches: 
apart, and must have been so placed when the stone was put 
down. Near these was a wooden bead, with a thin covering of 
copper.. Under the next, or fourth stone, were several of the long 
flint flakes or knives, and eight inches from the edge of the stone 
was a small copper celt. These deposits, under the stones of 
which the body was tobe placed, certainly suggest the offerings 
of friends at the time the grave was prepared, and the various 
other objects placed in the grave with the body can, with equal 
reason, be looked upon as the property of the deceased, or as 
friendly offerings. At all events they are important as proof that 
the individuals buried here belonged to the people who built the 
mounds, as these several objects are of the same character as the 
many we have found on the altars, and with the few skeletons in 
the burial mounds of the group. 
Grave 15 of our notes was remarkable for the care with which 
the walls, sixteen inches high at the head and foot, were made of 
four layers of flat stones, while along the sides, in the clay above 
the gravel layer, were simply a row of stones. The skeleton was 
lying firmly imbedded in the gravel, extended at full length on 
its back, with the skull at the west end of the grave, while the 
toe bones were against the opposite stones. The skeleton thus 
extended the full length of the grave, which was six feet three 
inches, As with nearly all the adult skeletons, there was a cop- 
-~  Perear ornament in the bones of each hand. On the breast bone 
was a copper band. At the neck were two shell beads, and near 
the left shoulder was a flake knife. A few inches from the left a 
foot were about twenty of the long flake knives, carefully laid oe 
together, as if they had been Tappi in a piece of skin or es 
when placed in the grave. : 
With two other skeletons we found celts made of soft coal. : 
16 se were- perfectly made, with fine smooth edges aid polished i. 
, in exact imitation of the ordinary stone celt or hatchet; — 
aiy would have been worthless for the uses to which stone 
re 24 it is li that they were ornamental or oae o 
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ly to one more grave, No. 18 of our notes. This 
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mass of gravel a little over seven fee 
