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heap — made a mound nearly \\ feet high. Three large, bowl-shaped hollows 
extended down into the sand below the heap. In one, about 4 feet in 
diameter and 24 feet deep, the sand at the bottom was hard, breaking away 
in chunks, and darker than the surrounding soil, but the stones in the hollow 
showed no signs of having been burnt. In the second hollow, which was 
about 1 foot below the bottom of the heap, the sand at the bottom was also 
hard; but in the third, which was 4 feet 4 inches deep, the sand at the 
bottom was soft, and filled with blackened earth and ashes, mingled with 
patches and streaks of sand. Near the bottom was the gorget made from 
a piece of human skull, seen in Plate XV, figure 33. Five human skeletons 
were found in and around this deposit. 
Deposit 3, on the edge of the swamp and entirely outside the palisade, 
was about 20 feet in diameter, with a maximum depth of 18 inches. A thin 
layer of pure ashes extended through the middle, below which was a mixture 
of black refuse and ashes. Many animal bones and clam shells, but few 
artifacts, were found in this comparatively small deposit. 
Deposit 4, on the steepest part of the slope on the north side of the 
hill, with only a small part extending outside the palisade, was about 85 
feet long, east and west, by 50 feet wide, with a maximum depth of 24 
inches. The refuse extended to within a few feet of the swamp, much of it 
having been spread down hill by cultivation and erosion. This deposit 
yielded few artifacts. One human skeleton was discovered about its 
middle. 
Deposit 5, on the nearly level ground extending to the edge of the 
swamp, was about 45 feet long, northeast and southwest, by about 23 
feet wide. A few unusual specimens and one human skeleton were 
found in it. 
Deposit 6, near the level top of the hill, south of heap 4, was about 15 
feet in diameter and very shallow. 
Deposit 7, in the northwest corner of the Kelso field and mostly outside 
the palisade, was about 70 feet long by about 45 feet wide, with a maximum 
depth of 2 feet, black refuse and ashes being mixed without well-defined 
layers, but containing artifacts. 
Deposit 8, oval in outline and about 36 feet wide and 40 feet long, 
with a maximum depth of 14 inches, lay on the top of the hill. Nothing 
of importance was found in it. 
Deposit 9 was about 35 feet wide by 40 feet long and 8 inches deep. 
Only a small portion was excavated. 
Deposit 10, which was possibly one of the deposits mentioned by 
Guest as tumuli, is about 50 feet in diameter and 2 feet deep. There was 
a layer of ashes from 3 to 4 inches thick near the middle, but no fire- 
places were found. Many specimens were discovered in this deposit. 
Deposit 11, possibly the tumulus at the northeast corner of the par- 
allelogram referred to by Guest and shown on his map of the site {See 
Figure 1 ), was situated on the gradual slope of the north side of the hill and 
was about 40 feet wide by 75 feet long. The maximum depth was 18 inches 
in the centre and about 6 inches where it had been spread by cultivation. 
A thick layer of black refuse at the top rested on a thin layer of ashes, 
below which was another of refuse: in places, especially toward the edges, 
there were no ashes. In this deposit there were two pockets or pits filled 
