. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 830 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. SE. J Sec. 33, in Clear Lake Township, is a group of five mounds. It lies on a hillside sloping toward the stream, and a quarter of a mile to tlie east of South Fork. The following plan shows grouping location : Mounds 1 to 3 are round, 50 or 60 feet in diameter, and 18 or 20 inches high. Mounds 4 and 5 are about 50 feet long, by 30 wide, and 18 inches high. Lines drawn through the center of 4 and 5, fro
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 830 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. SE. J Sec. 33, in Clear Lake Township, is a group of five mounds. It lies on a hillside sloping toward the stream, and a quarter of a mile to tlie east of South Fork. The following plan shows grouping location : Mounds 1 to 3 are round, 50 or 60 feet in diameter, and 18 or 20 inches high. Mounds 4 and 5 are about 50 feet long, by 30 wide, and 18 inches high. Lines drawn through the center of 4 and 5, from end to end, would meet in the center of 1. These mounds are 100 feet apart. No exploration was attempted. The ground is in cultivation as grass land, but the mounds are still quite distinct. Back on the bluff, to the east a short distance, was the prairie; to the west a quarter of a mile, South Fork ; on the north and south small spring branches. WATSON MOUNDS. A quarter of a mile south of the bridge, where the Clear Lake wagon- road crosses Sangamon River, in Clear Lake Township, on the SE. ^ of the SE. ^ Sec. 21, is a group of four mounds. The following sketch will show the location of the mounds with regard to each other, as well as to the surrounding natural features:. FlG. 5.—Watson Mounds, Sangamon County, Illinois. Mounds 1 to 3 are round, 1 and 3 being probably 30 feet in diameter by 18 inches in height, while mound 2 is about 40 feet in diameter by 18 or 20 inches in height. Mound 4 is about 40 feet long, east and west, by 20 feet in breadth, and 18 inches in height. Mounds 1 and 2 are probably 50 feet apart; 2 and 3 are 150 yards apart; 3 and 4 about 100 feet. No excavation was made. The mounds follow the line of the bluff north and south. The ground at the south end of the bluff has been. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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