Burial No. 20, to which reference has been mad(\ included twenty skulls
and lay in a grave with rounded corners, 5 feet 1 inch !)>- 5 feet 6 inches in area,
the depth, as stated, being 2 feet 3 inches below the original sur-
face of the mound and 6.5 feet l)elow the ])resent one. The bones
in this grave were badly crushed, some retaining their shape in
part, others being almost in i^owder. Even the skulls were
flattened.
With this burial, mingled with the remnants of bones and
distributed over the base of the grave-pit, were fifty-two small,
flint arrowpoints, most of them serrated.
Three bunched burials, each with a single skull, had, respec-
tively, an earthenware vessel, two undecorated, one without
adornment except for series of three notches extending around
the margin of the opening. These burials, with which had been
l)laced the only earthenware vessels found by us in the mound,
lay near together and presumal)ly the same impulse i)i'ompted
the placing of all three ^'esse]s.
Beyond the artifacts described, nothing was found l)y us
with the burials, an unsatisfactory retinii, taking into considera-
tion the nature of the site, which indicates occujiancy by a se-
dentary- jwpulation for a consideral^le jieriod.
In the field near the mounds was little evidence of former aboriginal occu-
pancy, though a few arrowheads and knives were gathered from the surface,
including an interesting knife of flint, about 2.9 inches in length, showing a curve
on the end of the shank, the natural curve of the pebble from which the knife
was made (Fig. 25).
