. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 207 During the present excavations, however, the workmen found, at a height of four or five feet above the base of the mound, a deposit of human bones from six to eight feet in width, and averaging some eight inches in thickness, which stretched across the mound from east to Avest as though the remains had been gathered together and buried in a trench. On this level, scattered about within an area of six or eight feet square, and perhaps twenty feet from the southeast- erly side of the mound, were discovered a num
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 207 During the present excavations, however, the workmen found, at a height of four or five feet above the base of the mound, a deposit of human bones from six to eight feet in width, and averaging some eight inches in thickness, which stretched across the mound from east to Avest as though the remains had been gathered together and buried in a trench. On this level, scattered about within an area of six or eight feet square, and perhaps twenty feet from the southeast- erly side of the mound, were discovered a number of valuable relics, together with a large quantity of matting in which many of them had been enveloped. The archaeological zeal of the Celtic mind was, however, not adequate to the preservation of this matting, and, unfortunately, most of it, together with the bones, had been carted off and re-interred in the ditch. I was able to secure several small fragments, which show a coarse, vegetable cane-like fibre, simply woven without twisting, the flat strands measuring about one-eighth of an inch in width. Among the many curious articles carefully wrapped in these mat- tings, and here buried, were found a number of small Tortoise Shells formed of copper, which, being unique, are worthy of special attention. Of these I obtained three specimens, the rest having been Fig. 1. Fis. 2. They are made of beaten copper scarcely moi'e than one sixty- fourth of an inch in thickness, the larger and more perfect one measuring two and one-eighth inches in length and 13-16 inch in height. Their shape is remarkably true and perfect, showing a central ridge from end to end, produced by pressure from the under surface. (See figures 1 and 2, also the two central pho- tographs, Plate VI.) A narrow flange or rim, about 5-32 inch in width, is neatly turned at the base, and over the entire outer sur- face the curious markings peculiar to the tortoise shell are carefully produced by indent
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