Burial Number 16- Skeleton of an adult, lying upon the back with knees drawn backward and upward, and with left forearm across the body. The orientation of this skeleton was unusual for the site, the head being toward the west. The skeleton presented an interesting pathological condition of the teeth (Fig. 11).

Burial Number 17-Infant, extended burial, with head to the southeast; at the pelvis reposed two triangular arrow-points of drab-colored flint.

Burial Number 18Adult, badly decomposed as a result of shallow grave; extended burial, with head toward the southeast.

Burial Number 19-This grave furnished the second example for the site of a burial disturbed by the construction of a storage-pit. In this instance the body had been deposited upon large slabs of limestone, and the digging of the pit had removed the lower one-half of the skeleton, including the pelvis. The cut, (Fig. 12) shows the slabs in place with the skull as it lay when found, but through an oversight, the remaining skeletal parts were removed before the photograph was made. The edge of the pit, as it impinged upon the burial, may be seen in the cut.

Burial Number 20- Skeleton of an adult, extended upon the back, with head toward the southeast; this skeleton lay in a very shallow grave and was badly decomposed. With it were several bone implements, including an awl, made from a leg-bone of the deer.

FIG. 12.

Skull of Burial number 19; the Burial was placed upon flat stones; lower portions removed in digging a storage Pit.

Burial Number 21- Skeleton of an infant, extended upon the back, head to the northeast; shallow grave and badly decomposed skeletal remains.

THE STORAGE-PITS

The storage pits, cache pits or refuse pits, as they are variously termed, as found in the Campbell Island site, were quite similar to those found in other sites of the culture group in Ohio, although, owing to the lesser importance and size of the site under consideration, they perhaps were not so large nor so carefully constructed. The largest of the 35 pits examined measured three and one-half feet in diameter at the top, was five feet in depth, and tapered slightly inward to the flat bottom. It was filled with the characteristic strata of earth, organic remains, sand and so forth, while upon the bottom, to a depth of 10 inches, lay a deposit of charred shelled corn and beans. Almost a bushel of the intermixed corn and beans was removed and was found to be in a very gratifying condition, the greater part of the grains retaining their natural forms. Numerous animal and bird bones were taken from the upper strata of this pit, and many fragments of the characteristic pottery-ware were recovered.

The refuse pits were the principal source of the implements, ornaments and pottery-fragments obtained from the site, among the last-named being an extremely large and interesting broken vessel which afforded a complete restoration, and a second vessel, almost as large, which had been fractured and dumped into the pit.

In the portion of the site extending to the southward of the barnyard there was disclosed a fire-place, five

feet in diameter. This was not a specialized structure, such as occasionally are found in sites of the culture group, but merely an open fire-bed, occupying the level unmodified surface of the ground. Within the ashes resulting from its use were found fragments of potteryware, broken bone scrapers, mussel-shells and animal bones.

ARTIFACTS FROM THE SITE

Pottery-ware - Potsherds and fragments of pots, mostly from the large handled cooking vessels, were everywhere in evidence throughout the site. Fig. 13 illustrates an unusually interesting vessel, of large size, which was found by Dr. H. L. Good, previous to these explorations, where it had been partly exposed through caving off of the terrace in which it lay. Apparently the vessel had been thrown into a pit, upon being broken, the break being in the nature of a vertical crack or split, thus leaving the pot in two practically entire sections. It was presented by Dr. Good to the Museum, where the restoration was made. The vessel measures 17 inches in height and 142 inches in diameter.

A second extremely large and very unusual vessel, taken by our survey from a pit in the feed-lot section, is shown as Fig. 14. This pot, which has the extraordinary measurements of 173 inches in diameter and 123 inches in height, has a capacity of something near five gallons. The walls average less than one-eighth of an inch in thickness and in places are as little as onetwelfth of an inch. The entire vessel weighs a few ounces over five pounds. It will be noted that in type, as well as in size, this vessel does not conform to the characteristic pottery-ware of the culture group. It is

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without handles, its horizontal measurement as compared with the vertical is much greater, and the character of its component material is different. Instead of the rather coarse clay, tempered with granulated shell,

FIG. 13. Large Pottery Vessel found by Dr. H. L. Good in a Stor age Pit (1-5).

which usually burns to a reddish hue, this vessel is made from a very fine and smooth slip, without visible tempering material, and as a result of firing has a dark brown to black color. Tests of fragments show, despite their thinness, extreme strength and resistance to use