Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . Fig. 70. Bead of sheetcopper, Grant Mound.(Full size.) Fig. 71. Ornament of sheet copper, Grant Mound. (About full size.) Another tube of about the same proportions, rough on the outside, has somewhatthe appearance of a natural formation. GALENA. A piece of Galena, somewhat over a cubic inch in size, lay unassociated at adepth of 15 feet beneath the summit plateau. SHELL. Small beads of shell were found in great abundance, always in association withhuman remains. Several unimportant objects of shell were met with during the investiga
Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia . Fig. 70. Bead of sheetcopper, Grant Mound.(Full size.) Fig. 71. Ornament of sheet copper, Grant Mound. (About full size.) Another tube of about the same proportions, rough on the outside, has somewhatthe appearance of a natural formation. GALENA. A piece of Galena, somewhat over a cubic inch in size, lay unassociated at adepth of 15 feet beneath the summit plateau. SHELL. Small beads of shell were found in great abundance, always in association withhuman remains. Several unimportant objects of shell were met with during the investigation,including a drinking cup wrought from Fulgur perversum. COPPER. The presence of copper of aboriginal design, at depths to denote original intro-duction, was a feature of peculiar interest in the Grant Mound. In caved sand was a nearly spherical bead of sheet copper, 7 of an inch indiameter (Fig. 70). 202 CERTAIN SAND MOUNDS OF Five feet from the surface, in sand rendered bright cherry by admixture ofHematite, with fragmentary human remains and large n
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