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Title: Ohio archæological and historical quarterly
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society
Subjects: History Archaeology
Publisher: Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ght from the Ohio pipestone. Burial number 7, adjacent to the last mentioned,disclosed two large plates of mica, probably used asmirrors; several copper button-shaped ornaments, anda few perforated bear teeth. Upon the upper and later floor, were found a crema-tory (number 1) and eight burials. Of these burials, Le gr end „..»* m crerrr. bur/oct J** o / post-hole / o ° ° 0 0 / O / . ° $•*** 0 o o o \ . • • \ ? « « • o o \ I o cr>eMCLtor/es*^ 0 „ . ° I I ° ®,o * • o ° o ° I 0 o „o I o o ° o0 ° ° a ° i rt ° ° o ° / o «• - / PL.47V C!P FLOOR .MOUND *1QMOUND CITY GROUP scale: in feet /s >o a o /o zq jo ■CZM I ! I 3 Fig. 17. Plan of the floor of Mound No. 18. (469) 470 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications seven were simply placed upon the floor without arti-facts. With burial number 5 were placed 50 shellbeads. The two distinct floors of mound number 18, to-gether with the crematories, one on each level, areshown in the photograph, Fig. 18.
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Fig. 18. Photograph showing sand layers and crematories, Mound 18. It is interesting to compare Squier and Davis draw-ing, shown in Fig. 16; the size of their shaft, fromwhich that drawing was made (Fig. 17); and the photo-graphic view of a cross-section of the mound as madeby our survey (Fig. 18). From the last named, it willbe noted that the mound possessed four distinct sandstrata, instead of the three recorded by them. Thisinstance affords a good example of the danger of sur-mise or of basing conclusions for a mound as a wholeon any given portion thereof. In view of the comparatively small number and un- Exploration of the Mound City Group 471 importance of the burials of mound number 18; its largesize and evidences of cremation activities; and itsproximity to mound number 3, and the great centralmound, number 7, it seems likely that it served in greatpart as an auxiliary and supplemental mound to the twoothers of the central group of three. MOUND NUMBER 7 By right of size, as wel

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