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2. Hehas, however, erroneously described the mound as being located 
one mile north, instead of one mile east, of Newtown. Three hundred 
yards west of, and on the same plain as the big mound, is located 
mound No. 8 of this group. It is three feet in height, and at base has 
a circumference of one hundred and fifty feet. The asterisk directly 
north of this mound indicates the site of a mound that was entirely 
removed during the construction of the Batavia turnpike. Mound 
No. 9 is located east of the village of Newtown, in the center of the 
Odd Fellows’ Cemetery, and on the higher portion of the first plain or 
bottom land. It is very symmetrical in shape, having an elevation of 
about ten feet, circumference at base two hundred and ten feet. A 
small mound (No. 14 on chart) three feet in height, is situated on the 
east side of the same inclosure. 
An asterisk on the Plainville road, north of the village, marks the 
site of a mound recently removed. It was about seven feet in elevation. 
An account, by S. A. Bell, of its removal and contents was published 
in the Cincinnati Gazette, March 30, 1874, an extract from which is 
as follows:. 
“Mr. S. A. Bell, of Plainville, brought to our office, on Saturday, 
some pieces of wood almost carbonized into charcoal, a number of 
fragments of bones, evidently those of young children, and fragments of 
teeth, back and front, which must have belonged to the mouth of a 
child; and also a rodent animal's tooth, which had obviously. been 
worn as aveck ornament. They were found Jast week under an ancient 
mound, which was removed for the purpose of building the approaches 
to the Newtown bridge. They lay in a large bed of coal and ashes, 
which already indicated that the fire had covered a space twenty-five 
feet in diameter. That it must have been a very hot and long con- 
tinued conflagration, was evident by the hardness and color of the 
ground and remains which had been effected by the heat. When the 
fire had burnéd out, the coal and ashes had been raked together in a 
heap from four to ten inches in depth. From this heap the pieces of 
| bone in the collection shown to us have been picked out. Among the 
: discoveries were a skull which had escaped complete combustion, but 
. had been flattened down by the weight of the dirt above it, leaving its 
character plain and distinct, however; close beside it lay three front and 
four jaw teeth, seemingly unaffected by fire. Most of the other bones 
lay promiscuously among the ashes. The number of victims was evi- 
dently large, and (the remains) were all those of children.’’ 
Two hundred yards northwest from the site of the mound just de- 
