Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . rth, three feet A thin stratum of Another layer of earth two feet Another stratum of sand, beneath which, and sepa-rated by a few inches of earth, was — 6th. The altar, Fig. 32, (reproduced in Fig. 7). This altar was a parallelo-gram of the utmost regularity,as shown in the plan and sec-tion. At its base, it measuresten feet in length by eight inwidth; at the top, six feet byfour. Its height was eighteeninches, and the dip of the basinnine inches. Within the basin10ft. \| was a deposit of fine ashes, un-mixed with ch
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . rth, three feet A thin stratum of Another layer of earth two feet Another stratum of sand, beneath which, and sepa-rated by a few inches of earth, was — 6th. The altar, Fig. 32, (reproduced in Fig. 7). This altar was a parallelo-gram of the utmost regularity,as shown in the plan and sec-tion. At its base, it measuresten feet in length by eight inwidth; at the top, six feet byfour. Its height was eighteeninches, and the dip of the basinnine inches. Within the basin10ft. \| was a deposit of fine ashes, un-mixed with charcoal, three inchesthick, much compacted by theweight of the superincumbentearth. Amongst the ashes weresome fragments of pottery, also a few shell and pearl of the pottery was recovered to restore a beautifulvase, for a drawing and description of which the reader is re-ferred to the paragraphs on Pottery. The second or lower sandstratum in this, as in several other instances, rested directly uponthe outer sides of the Fig. 7. Plan and section of altar, Mound No. 2, after Squier & Davis. The crematories located in the section of floor re-maining for final examination were smaller in everyway than those above described. Exploration of the Mound City Group 443 A plan of the remaining portion of the floor ofmound number 2 is shown as Fig. 8. From the scantdepth of undisturbed earth above this floor, from 4 to 6inches, it will be apparent that any pretentious graveof the platform type that may have existed thereonwould have shared the fate of those contained in theportion entirely eradicated. Examination of the floor remnant was begun on thesouth side, where but 4 inches of earth remained. Withgraves numbers 1, 2, 3 and 7, lying toward the south,no artifacts were found, the burials consisting solely ofthe usual charred bones placed upon the floor withoutpreparation. Burial number 4 contained a necklace of47 pearl beads, undamaged by fire and fairly well pre
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