Another Miami Valley Skeleton. 



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ANOTHER MIAMI VALLEY SKELETON,* 

 Including a Description of Two Rare Harpoons. 



By Seth Hayes, 



Museum Director of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



On Saturday, September 22, 1894, while graYel was being 

 removed from the bank of Mr. Thos. B. Punshon, in Linwood, 

 Hamilton County, Ohio, two shin bones were noticed pro- 

 truding from near the top of the sand bank (some sixty feet 

 above the level of the pike). 



Unfortunately, the grave was opened at once and its contents 

 removed by inexperienced parties. But, nevertheless, some 

 valuable material was thus secured. 



The sand-bank, above referred to, consists of a cut, which 

 is being made into the north-western side of a gravel ridge, 

 which extends in a north-easterly direction on the plateau 

 between Duck Creek and the Little Miami River, in Section 14, 

 of Spencer Township. " On this ridge we have a tumulus 

 and a circular excavation. The tumulus has an elevation of 

 nine feet and a circumference of two hundred feet at the base. 

 It has not been explored, and is covered with young forest 

 trees. Three hundred yards south-west of this tumulus is the 

 circular excavation. Its diameter north to south is forty feet, 

 east to west is forty-four feet, depth seven feet. An old 

 settler related that fifty years ago remains of stakes or 

 palisades could be seen surrounding this excavation."! 



The grave was about one hundred and thirty-two yards 

 north of the tumulus and some ten yards south-east of the 

 original base of the ridge, and lay about east south-east. 



* This skeleton and accompanying relics are in the collection of the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History. 



fDr. C. L. Metz, on Prehistoric Monuments of the Miami Valley, in the Journal 

 of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Volume I, p. 119. The tumulus and 

 excavation are shown on his diagram, Group B, Nos. 1 and 2 . 



