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village or camp (No. 18, Group C); it occupies the more elevated portion 
of the first bottom ofthe Little Miami river. Here numerous flints, arrow 
heads, pipes, fleshers, potsherds, animal remains, together with charcoal 
and ashes, are turned up by the plow. On the still higher portions of 
this plain several human skeletons have been discovered interred hori- 
zontally (No. 19, Group C). During the course of the present month 
(October, 1881), a small pit was dug immediately west of the house. 
At the depth of 3 feet a skeleton was found horizontally interred. Two 
and a half miles northeast of the village, on the Newtown and Milford 
road, is a tongue of land extending out from the second plain of the 
river, having an average height of about sixty feet, anda width of from 
one hundred to three hundred yards, It is located in survey 427, 
on the lands of Mr. Samuel Edwards, and is the ridge on which the 
residence is situated. The extreme northern point of this ridge is 
occupied by an ancient cemetery (No. 20, Group C). It has not been 
sufficiently explored to determine the position of the inhumations. 
Two hundred yards south of this cemetery, on the same point of land, 
are two mounds (Nos. 21 and 22, Group C), the former being four feet 
high, and having a diameter of 50 feet north and south. No. 22, the 
larger mound, has an elevation of eight feet, and measures, at base: 
two hundred and fifty feet in circumference. These mounds are three 
hundred feet apart in a line east and west, and about three hundred 
yards north from the residence of Mr. Edwards. Two hundred yards 
northeast of the residence of Mr. Edwards, and on the same plateau is 
located a circular embankment inclosing a mound (No. 23, Group C): 
The work is a perfect circle, except on the southeast, where it is inter- 
rupted by a gateway about fifty feet wide. ‘The circumference of the 
work is about seven hundred feet. The mound is of an oblong shape, 
and three and a half feet high. The embankment is about two feet in 
elevation, and the material for its construction seems to have been 
taken trom within the inclosure, forming a slight ditch. 
Mound No. 24 of this group is located on a spur of land about one 
hundred and fifty feet above the level of Dry run, about three hundred 
yards southeast from the Dry run bridge, and south from the Batavia 
turnpike. It is composed entirely of flat limestones, of various sizes 
and thicknesses, and covered with about two feet of clayey loam. It 
is nine feet in elevation, and has a diameter at base from east to west 
of sixty feet. It has been opened in its center to a depth of five feet; 
a layer of charcoal and ashes was reached when the work was discon- 
tinued. 
