PLATE 12
BONE AND ANTLER IMPLEMENTS FROM GOAT BLUFF CAVE[ToList]
PLATE 13 a, Cairn six miles north of Arlington, Mo.[ToList]
PLATE 13 b, Walled grave six miles north of Arlington, Mo.
a Front b Profile.
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About 65 feet in, near the west side, an inverted pot which shows no marks of use was found in a mass of ashes filling a cavity the size of a half bushel, which had been dug in the upper deposit. Scattered here and there among the ashes were also some mussel shells and broken deer bones; but the presence of these was probably not intentional, as the whole arrangement seemed to have the nature of a votive offering. This was the only perfect vessel found in the entire course of the explorations. It is of the ordinary "cocoanut form," and is represented in figure 6.
Seventy feet in was a skeleton, on the left side; the bones were soft and came out in small fragments. This was fully 6 feet below the present surface, but some of this earth was piled up from earlier excavations.
