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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1926
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Notice du catalogue : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
Notice du catalogue : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Type : texte
Type : publication en série imprimée
Langue : anglais
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Description : 1926
Description : 1926 (N44)-1927.
Description : Note : Index.
Droits : Consultable en ligne
Droits : Public domain
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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007
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At each corner of the trench, a foot above bottom, were fragmentary bones of a young child with wood or bark around them as if they had been inclosed in it.
Possibly other graves may exist beyond the area excavated, which extended 3 feet past the center; but the lack of discoveries-in those cleared out and the difficulty of removing the overlying clay, which was nearly 13 feet deep where the work ceased, made further examination undesirable.
Mound 9.-This is a small affair on the extreme edge of the bluff, 250 feet southwest of Mound 8, and in the same field. So much digging has been done in it that no estimate could be made as to its size. Some years ago a small coin was found on the mound, and since then many persons have spent much time in the endeavor to secure the remainder of the treasure."
It is reported that a small clay pot and some bones were unearthed several feet from the center.
Mound 10.-On the edge of the bluff, 200 yards nearly east from Mound 8, was a mound which after much cultivation measured 4 feet high and 60 feet across. A circle 20 feet in diameter was laid off on the top, as near the middle as could be determined, and all the earth within this was removed. It was uniform in character, containing only surface soil like that in the field around; no material from a greater depth was used. The usual pieces of pottery, charcoal, and flint were found. There were also two small pieces of grooved burned clay similar to those occurring so abundantly north of Delhi; a small, much used hammer or flint chipper of yellowish quartz, and a symmetrical, highly polished plummet made of magnetic iron ore. There was no evidence of a burial; the component earth merged so gradually into the underlying soil that no line of démarcation could be traced. There was no fire bed and no indication that a grave had been dug, although the excavation was carried well down into the subsoil. At no place was there any difference in the appearance of the earth from that at the same level elsewhere, except in one spot near the northern edge of the excavation, where there was an irregular depression 18 or 20 inches across and a little less than a foot deep, filled with bluish clay in which were small fragments of charcoal and burned earth.
Mound 11. – This seems to have been erected as a square," flattopped domiciliary pile; but it has been cultivated for many years, and its exact size or shape can not be ascertained. Its elev ation now, at the highest point, is 3i/2 feet, the surface being quite uneven. Measuring to the present edge of the slopes, the longest diameter is 120 feet on a line north of west, the shortest 90 feet nearly northeast. _n~n nn nn