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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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Davis really observed on the floor ex-posed by their shafts, and what the real significance oftheir partial disclosure proved to be. Only their cen-tral shafts, it will be noted, were connected by drifts.The outer ones, sunk for test purposes, encountered thesmooth hard floor, more or less burned and reddened,which they mistook for continuation of the basin dis-closed at the center. With the entire floor of the mound exposed by oursurvey, the surmises of three-quarters of a centurywere set at rest. It was found that near the center of Exploration of the Mound City Group 508 the structure there had been erected originally a crema-tory basin measuring 8 feet in length and 5 feet inwidth. This basin had been used continuously andintensively, with the result that the underlying earthwas burned red to a depth of 12 inches. Moreover,long-continued use had necessitated repeated repairs,effected by replacing burned-out portions of its wallswith fresh layers of clay. In the end, the basin had
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r : ^9>;-™„-.v«;j m Fig. 37. Photograph showing entire length of floor space exposed bySquier & Davis, which measured twenty-two feet in length. become unfit for use, through long service, and wasabandoned for a new one. The new crematory basin, it will be noted on thefloor plan, was constructed at the north end of anddirectly in line with, the old basin; in fact, it actuallyoverlapped the latter to the extend of -about 18 inches.This new crematory basin measured 12 feet long and7 feet wide, and was the largest of the entire MoundCity group. The minor basin or compartment of 504 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications Squier and Davis proved to be merely the remainingportion of the old crematory, the raised end of which,at the south, formed one of the transverse partitions,the other of which was the south end of the new basin. THE CENTRAL DEPOSITORY Although the old basin had been abandoned as acrematory, it was made use of, as shown by Squierand Davis, and as confirmed

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