Ohio archæological and historical publications . feet elevation. They are in the edge of HolmesCounty, just a little over the line in Washington Township. Thenearly obliterated one was about ten inches high and was speedilyexcavated. Nothing in it. The large one is composed of dark red clay and is shownin Figure IV. It had been partly dug some sixty years it were found two skeletons, a boulder layer and a slate Report of Field Work. 179 ornament. There were slight evidences of camp sites in the ad-joining fields, but more in the valley below, along the stream. We sunk a trench eight and
Ohio archæological and historical publications . feet elevation. They are in the edge of HolmesCounty, just a little over the line in Washington Township. Thenearly obliterated one was about ten inches high and was speedilyexcavated. Nothing in it. The large one is composed of dark red clay and is shownin Figure IV. It had been partly dug some sixty years it were found two skeletons, a boulder layer and a slate Report of Field Work. 179 ornament. There were slight evidences of camp sites in the ad-joining fields, but more in the valley below, along the stream. We sunk a trench eight and one-half feet wide and nine feetdeep and continued the same around the mound, widening it atthe bottom. We found the mound had been built over a slightdepression and therefore while but seven feet high on the northside, was nine feet on the east and south sides. It was erected upon a burnt floor or base. Above this wasa dark streak one-half inch wide; then a layer of ashes and potteryfragments and burnt bones one-half inch thick. A hard burnt. Figure IV. The Quick Mound, Loudenville, C, previous to exploration. pan or floor, one inch thick and cement-like in character wasabove this. It seems to have extended over a space 12x15 the summit down to within one foot of the base line thestructure exhibited no stratification. There was a heavy depositof white earth eight inches thick above the hard floor. We extended our trench forty feet in total length aroundthe old or central excavation, examining all the earth as far asthere were indications of burials, ashes, pottery, etc. We found, some sixteen feet southeast of the center, a skele-ton on the base line. It was much broken and decayed. How-ever, a large piece of skull and some of the leg bones were or forty beads lay about the neck. All the earth around 180 Ohio Arch, and His. Society Publications. the skeleton was carefully examined with trowels, also siftedthrough our hands in search of more bead
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