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did not go deeper than twenty-eight inches. Below that the 
ground seemed to be undisturbed loess. No trace of either stone 
or metal was found about the mound. 
Early in September, 1921, Clifford Kates and I dug into a 
mound on the hilltop southeast of the Kates’ house. There had 
been so much rain that the ground elsewhere was wet over three 
feet deep. Across the center of the mound we dug a trench 
two and one-half feet wide and about fourteen feet long. Here 
at a depth of one foot we found a very hard dry clay that looked 
as if it was made partly of ashes. So hard was it that we 
could hardly dig through it. We found in it nothing to prove it 
of Indian origin. After digging through twenty inches of the 
hard pan we came to the common loess soil of the hilltops in this 
section. At the east end of the mound in a hole two and one- 
half feet deep we found none of the hard soil and very little 
elsewhere. 
GlEnwood. 
