. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY |i;i-LL. 37 with a maximum breadth of 21 feet, reaching nearly to the east margin of the mound. When cleared off, these rocks were found to lie entirely to the west of the center, there being but few in the eastern half, and those superficial. At the top the rocks were in the form of a rough wall of irregular height, inclosing a space 9^ feet southeast by 7 feet northeast. The northeast wall was straight for 8 feet 9 inches; the northwest wall for 4 feet 10 inches; the southeast wall for 4 feet 9 inches; the two corners of these three wall
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 34 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY |i;i-LL. 37 with a maximum breadth of 21 feet, reaching nearly to the east margin of the mound. When cleared off, these rocks were found to lie entirely to the west of the center, there being but few in the eastern half, and those superficial. At the top the rocks were in the form of a rough wall of irregular height, inclosing a space 9^ feet southeast by 7 feet northeast. The northeast wall was straight for 8 feet 9 inches; the northwest wall for 4 feet 10 inches; the southeast wall for 4 feet 9 inches; the two corners of these three walls were somewhat rounded. The southwest wall, 10 feet long, had a tolerably regu- lar outward curve. The above dimensions are all inside measure- ments; the corresponding outside measurements were: Northeast wall, 11 feet 6 inches; northwest wall, 6 feet 6 inches; southeast wall, 7 feet 6 inches; southwest wall, 14 feet. The general appearance of this vault, on the outside, before the supporting earth was removed, is well shown in plate 5, a. In clearing out the vault, fragments of human bones were found scattered through the earth from top to bottom. There were parts of 12 skulls, and fragments of 5 pots, the latter entire when placed here but now much broken by pres- sure, besides numerous pot- sherds. Two of the pots, one upright (fig. 6), one inverted, were near one skull. Beside one of the pots were part of a human ulna and three leg bones of a panther. The vault was 2 feet 9 inches deep from the top of the highest stone to the bottom of the lowest stone. In the southwest wall was a space 24 inches wide, filled with earth, in which no stones appeared except three slabs along the outside, set up against the earth. This was the doorway or entrance to the vault, the stones in the wall at each side of it being regularly laid up (pi. 5, h, c). Along the bottom, the inside of the vault was nearly rectangular, the walls being about as straight as they could be made with un- dresse
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