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Burial No. 8 was without long bones, exhibiting only
a decayed skull under which were troweled out about a dozen
disc-shaped shell beads.
Burial Do. 9 was a childls, containing basal skull
and Darts of two femora.
Burial Xo. 10 was located at mound base, opposite
Burial h'o. 9, and consisted of middle shaft portions of three
long bones and a portion of the calvarium.
The pottery cache uncovered in the east end of the axis
trench did not extend south into the N-foot block in which these
burials occurred. Except for the shell beads, there was no burial
furniture.
Burial No, 11: This was rather definitely a seaondary burial of
an adult. Distinguishable remains were of a
skull, femora, tibiae, one humerus, and one radius. The burial
was found at mound base, with skull on right side, and maxillary
portion missing. There was noted marked frontal deformation, and
some slight lashdoidal flattening. No burial furniture was found.
as follows:
The final clearing of the spottery cache" arsa is described
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