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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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FlG. 77 — Fabric with copper balls attached. mated, and all had been placed promiscuously at or near the baseof the mound. No prepared graves were discernible, and inseveral instances the heads were placed lower than the feet, andin one instance the head and feet were lower than the middle of
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FlG. 78 —Woven fahru 190 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. the body. The skeletons were badly decomposed, so much sothat not a single perfect bone of any kind was removed from theburials. But few artifacts were interred with the burials, andthese consisted of a few notched arrow heads, very well chipped,and many flint knives roughly prepared. Near one of the burialswas found a finely polished celt, and with another a tubular pipe,which is shown in Fig. 79. The extra burial forming the twenty-eighth, which constitutes the contents of the mound, was cre-mated, and intrusive to this mound. The grave in which thecremated remains were placed was made some time after themound had been completed, as the outline of the various layersof clay could readily be seen on the sides of the grave. No logshad been used as support around the side of the grave, which wasotherwise similar to those placed above the base line in the Ed-win Harness Mound, but the grave showed that a covering of .

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