Ohio archæological and historical publications . a few animal bones andcoprolites. No human remains were disclosed excepting a splitbone, and even that is doubtful. The ashes continue deeper, andfurther examination might prove interesting. At Brink Haven the stream (Mohican River) is large andcan be navigated in a canoe. There are many stone moundson both sides, upon the high hills. On the Hunter farm one mile below the village, is a smallmound 3 feet high and 35 feet base, made of yellow clay. Itis shown in Figure VI. Although thoroughly examined, therewas nothing found in it. Mr. Gann lives
Ohio archæological and historical publications . a few animal bones andcoprolites. No human remains were disclosed excepting a splitbone, and even that is doubtful. The ashes continue deeper, andfurther examination might prove interesting. At Brink Haven the stream (Mohican River) is large andcan be navigated in a canoe. There are many stone moundson both sides, upon the high hills. On the Hunter farm one mile below the village, is a smallmound 3 feet high and 35 feet base, made of yellow clay. Itis shown in Figure VI. Although thoroughly examined, therewas nothing found in it. Mr. Gann lives opposite the Hunters, across the his farm are two mounds 300 yards apart. One is 4 feethigh and 35 feet base. Both are injured by cultivation. Inthe larger one we found some charcoal. Four large white flintarrow-heads lay about a foot from the surface near the else was found. Report of Field Work. 189 The small mound contained charcoal and burnt were no bones or relics. Both mounds were Figure VI. Tlie Ilunler Mound, Brink. Haven, O. We reached Walhonding late in the evening of the saw a cache of rough flint implements in the possession ofMr. George Workman. He found them in a pit 3 feet deep whenclearing a woods. They occupied a space 2x1^ feet, and num-bered more than 400. People have carried off about half of thecache. The others yet lie in his yard. We went six miles up Green valley to Mr. Staats, where alarge mound 7x65 feet was reported. It had been excavated,some one having run two large cross trenches through it. Wedid not attempt to dig in it. On the Gamble farm. iH miles up Owl Creek, were twomounds in the front yard. Each was 40x4 feet and the edgeswithin 20 feet of each other. Both were thoroughly trenched,but nothing was found, except two small arrow-heads. It is singular that the Muskingum mounds contain so cannot account for it save in this wise: that the culture was 190 Ohio Arch, and
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