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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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had been excavated a bowl-like cavity to contain the cremated remains. The or-ganic matter of the container had long since been re-placed by a deposit of bog-iron, a condition not infre-quently found in the mounds of this group, particularlyin the post-molds, where the wood of the post has beenreplaced by the metallic deposit. In this burial, crema-tion had been carried to a point where most of thebones were consumed, the deposit thus being unusuallysmall in quantity. With the remains were numerousremnants of perishable objects, including cut jaws andteeth, beads, and so forth, practically destroyed bycremation. A large bone awl, however, and a numberof beads, were unburned. Exploration of the Mound City Group 487 Burials numbers 6 and 7 occupied slightly raisedplatforms, and with each was placed a necklace of shellbeads. Burial number 8, lying southeast from the centerof the mound, contained an unusually large amount ofcremated remains. With these were found a necklaceof bone beads.
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Fig. 30. Photograph of burial No. 5 of Mound No. 7, placed in areceptacle made of part of a hollow stump. Examination of mound number 7 had reached astage, at this point, of utmost interest and importance.Its exploration was carried forward by the removal offive-feet cuts, extending approximately east and west,and reaching from top to floor. The last of these tobe completely removed, up to this time, had revealedburials 3, 4 and 8, and, in addition, just north of burialnumber 4, the margin of a primary sand-coveredmound, which promised to develop into something of 488 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications unusual interest. While this cut was being completedon its eastern end, workmen began the removal of thenext succeeding cut, at its western end. Burials 5, 6and 7, already described, were brought to light beforethe westernmost one-third of this cut was completed.Since this cut would carry the work of examination al-most to the geographical center of the mound, it wascarried forwa

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