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In No. 13 the animal sacrifice was placed in a crescent-shaped 

 pocket of golden sand, located at an elevation above mean lake level 

 of 19.69 feet or 4.2 feet from the top of the mound. This pocket 

 was 2.2 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 0.3 of a foot thick. In No. 14, 

 the animal sacrifice was placed in a pocket of gray ash at the same 

 depth as in No. 13, or 4.2 feet below the surface of the mound. The 

 underlying stratification, continued as in No. 13 to a considerable 

 depth, suggesting that these animal sacrifices were of much cere- 

 monial importance. 



The sacrifices themselves were surrounded by evidences of fire. 

 In No. 13 this was charcoal and in No. 14 it was ashes. In No. 13 

 the sacrifice rested immediately upon a fire layer about six feet in 

 diameter which was in turn underlaid by a thick stratum of fire 

 blackened sand. In No. 14, on the other hand, the fire layer was 

 about two feet above the sacrifice, and at a level about midway be- 

 tween it and the surface of the mound. On account of the fragile 

 condition of the bones, it was impossible to determine the species 

 of the remains. The burned condition of the bones, leaves no doubt 

 of their deposition here by the builders of the mounds. 



MOUNDS Nos. 15 TO 17 



Mounds Nos. 15, 16 and 17 were three small conicals situated 

 south of the tail of the panther effigy, No. 5. As viewed in relation 

 to the larger group, they were a continuation of the line formed by 

 the large panther effigy, No. 3, and the great conical burial mound 

 on the point. Their position is seen in the plat of the group, fig. 1. 

 The measurements of these three mounds were as follows : 

 Elevation Elevation 



No. above lake above surface Diameter 



15 19.9' 0.36' 12' 



16 20.48' 0.94' 14' 



17 20.68' 1.14' 17' 

 They were without special features of interest, and of compara- 

 tively simple stratification. The stratification of mound No. 15 was 

 not taken. Mound No. 16 contained only two artificial strata, as 

 follows : 



Surface 20.48 



Loam 20.33 



Dark yellow sand 19.48 



