Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . beads, undamaged by fire and fairly well pre-served. Burials 5 and 6 were similar to the first-namedand devoid of specimens. Crematory number 1 lay about 10 feet to the northof the burials numbered 5 and 6, and is shown as It measured 6 feet in length, 4 feet in width and6 inches in depth. Ten fragments of pottery-ware anda small quantity of charred human bones remained inthe basin from cremation. This crematory was wellmade from puddled clay, and although its surface wasmuch cracked it had never been mended. Crematory number 2 (Fig. 8) was
Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . beads, undamaged by fire and fairly well pre-served. Burials 5 and 6 were similar to the first-namedand devoid of specimens. Crematory number 1 lay about 10 feet to the northof the burials numbered 5 and 6, and is shown as It measured 6 feet in length, 4 feet in width and6 inches in depth. Ten fragments of pottery-ware anda small quantity of charred human bones remained inthe basin from cremation. This crematory was wellmade from puddled clay, and although its surface wasmuch cracked it had never been mended. Crematory number 2 (Fig. 8) was located about 4feet directly north of basin number 1. It contained nocremated remains, but a quantity of broken pottery-ware taken from it proved to be, upon restoration, asingle vessel very similar in type and decoration to avessel taken from this same mound by Squier and vessel is described under the head of pottery. Itwill be noted that mound number 2 contained threecrematories — one found by Squier and Davis and two •UBS**!. Lege net \o post-hole \ o Be £3 ere/??. 4>t/r/aZ \ PLv\N OF FLOORMOUND *2MOUND CITY GROUP , SCALE IN FEET *5 /Q & O /0 2Q 30 Fig. 8. Plan of remnants of Mound No. 2, made by our survey. (444) Exploration of the Mound City Group 445 by the final survey. This is not unusual, since moundsnumbers 12 and 21 each were found to contain a similarnumber of such basins. As the examination was carried through to thenorthward, burials 8 to 15 were disclosed. All wereplaced simply upon the well-defined floor, without arti-facts. Burial number 16, placed about 25 feet directlynorth of crematory number 2, was of especial interest,
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