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Ironton
Register Thursday, March 24, 1892

Excerpt from: The
account in the Register, last week, of a visit to the "Indian"
mound, and the excavation thereof, awakened considerable
interest, and we have received several inquiries, which we
will answer at random. The bones were almost as light as cork.
The teeth fell out of the jaws upon the slightest handling.
The skulls were full of earth, packed solid, and the bones
parted upon the slightest pressure. The pottery in the mounds
was made of a black clay, in which were many fragments of
shells. It was very hard. The beads were made of shells and
deer horn, and were in pieces form the size of a pea to a
peanut. It is very interesting relic. There were ashes in the
mound, and one gentleman, referring to the fact, said the
mound-builders probably buried with the ritual, "Ashes to
ashes, dust to dust &c." The mound was made of soft earth
piled up on a solid clay.
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