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- scribed, and within a small private burial inclosure is a small mound 
(No. 15 on chart), it has a diameter of forty feet at base, and an eleva- 
tion of about three feet. An asterisk near the junction of the two turn- 
pikes, in Newtown, shows the site of a mound removed previous to 
1830; five skeletons were found with their heads toward the center of 
the mound in a circle. An asterisk in the center of the village marks 
the site of a mound removed about the same time as the former one 
just deseribed. Of this mound, Mr. Wm. Edwards, who is one of the 
oldest residents, and a most intelligent and reliable observer, says: 
“The hands in the Newtown district were working on the road, when 
it became necessary to remove a small mound in front of Mr. Dunseth’s 
house, in Newtown, where they found five skeletons, and a pot, appa- 
rently formed of mussel shells, and a kind of glutinous cement. It 
would probably have held a gallon, and was perfectly formed in shape. 
It was found in the center of the mound, and the skeletons lying reg- 
ularly around it, with their heads toward it as a common center. 
Several other mounds have been removed where the skeletons have 
been placed in the same positions.” 
Immediately to the south of Newtown is an elevated plateau, about 
four hundred yards wide, extending to a small stream called Jennie’s 
run, which flows along its southern base. This plain is elevated about 
eighty feet above the level on which the village is located. It is of 
drift gravel formation, and extends westward about a half mile. About 
the centre of this elevated plain, and on its northern edge, a mound 
(No. 16, Group C) is located. This mound is truncated, having graded 
ways extending to the top of the mound, from the north and south — 
sides. It has an elevation of ten feet, and a diameter from east to 
west of sixty feet. On the southern edge and slope of this plateau, 
and in a line with this mound, a great number of skeletons were dis- 
covered and exhumed in the summer of 1838. Of this discovery, Mr, 
T. C. Day, an enthusiastic archeologist of that time, ‘writes: “ Last 
summer, the workmen, in procuring gravel for the Batavia turnpike, © 
immediately in the rear of Newtown, in the bank of a small stream 
called Jennie’s run, disinterred an immense number of human skele- 
tons. This ancient burial ground is on a gravelly point that juts out 
from the bank into the run, forming an acute bend. The graves are 
not, on an average, more than two feet in depth, though probably they 
were a great deal deeper, as the ridge has evidently washed to a con- 
siderable degree. As far as caved, the point is a solid body of coarse 
gravel, till within about two and a half feet of the surface, which 3s _ 
