Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Bulldozed
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/20/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb
- Northwest-southeast orientation
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- apparently extended
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 1
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Shell spoon (1)
- unknown position
3. Flake knife (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 2
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)
- unknown position
3. Copper breastplate (1)
- fragmentary
- unknown position
4. Shells (11)
- small spiral
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 3
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 4
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partially cremated
2. Copper fragments (2)
- small
- unknown position
3. Snail shell (1)
- freshwater
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 6
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Deer bones (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 7
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 8
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/02/48
Feature Description:
- No floor prep except for bark
- Oval in shape
- Clay and gravel cover, 3 feet by 3 inches by 2 feet 7 inches
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial cremation
2. Small flint pieces (2)
- unknown position
3. Potsherds (2)
- probably accidental
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Grave size is normal
- Charcoal floor prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 9
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/07/48
Feature Description:
- Bark cover and floor
- 1 foot 7 inches long by 1 foot 2 inches wide
- Long axis north-south
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Quartz pebbles
- firecracked
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Grave is small
- Charcoal floor prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 10
Burial
Burials 10A & 10B
Baby 1948: 4/08/48
Feature Description:
- Gravel and sand covered with strips of bark over body
- 3 feet 8 inches long by 3 feet 3 inches wide 4 inches height sand cover over bones
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- Bark floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Flint pieces (2)
- unknown position
3. Piece of worked bone (1)
- smoked
- unknown position
4. Copper earspools (4)
- two at either end of pile of bones
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 11
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/08/48
Feature Description:
- Bark on floor and above
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- Elliptical, 1 foot 1 inch long by 0.5 inch wide
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Spiral shells (2)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 12
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/10/48
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure
- Head directed northwest
- Two logs 6 feet 3 inches long by 2 feet 4 inches wide
- gravel against west log, yellow clay against east [Greber 1976, Table 31]
- Skull and part of upper extremity removed by bulldozer
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
2. Potsherd (1)
- on floor immediately around Burial 12 [probably not associated, not included in
database].
3. Translucent point (1)
- on right hip
- not quartz, probably chalcedony [per Chris Carr]
4. Shell Strip (1)
- across middle of both tibiae (lower legs)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater
Burial 13
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/22/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor cover
- Northwest-southeast long axis
- 3 feet long by 3 feet wide
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partially cremated
[Photo]
- Wall prep is some stone
- Associated with 14-18
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 14
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/23/48
Feature Description:
- Buried after Burial 15
- Bark floor cover
- Log tomb
- Gravel mound cover 3 feet 4 inches long by 3 inches wide by 6 inches thick
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains(1)
- partially
2. Steatite bowl fragment (1)
- unknown position
3. Flint knives (12)
- [prismatic flint blade]
- fragments
- unknown position
4. Piece worked bone (1)
- unknown position
5. Awls
- burnt and broken
- unknown position
6. Needles
- burnt and broken
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Tomb three sides minimum
- Associated with Burial s13, 15-18
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 15
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/26/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb rectangular
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Box turtle shell fragments (?)
- unknown position
3. Flint chips (4)
- unknown position
4. Shell spoon (1)
- unknown position
5. Conch shell (1) [Photo]
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Associated with Burials 13,14,16-18
- Four sides
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 16
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4/26/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb, one log high 3 feet long by 2.5 feet wide
- Bark cover
- Northwest-southeast orientation
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Needle (1)
- bone
- unknown position
3. Flake knife (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Four sides
- Associated with Burials 13-15, 17-18
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 17
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4-24-48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor cover
- Log tomb four sides
- Bark cover gravel-sand cover
- 4.5 feet long by 3.4 feet wide
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Small copper adze (1)
- northwest end of cremation pile
[Photo]
- Associated with Burials 13-16, 18
- Tomb four sides
- Charcoal floor prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 18
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 4-26-48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor cover northeast-southwest orientation
- Log tomb 2 feet 6 inches long by 2 feet 5 inches wide
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flint knife (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- unknown position
3. Flint drill (1)
- unknown position
4. Box turtle shell fragments (28)
- unknown position
5. Copper fragments (2)
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Associated with Burials 13-17
- Charcoal floor preparation
- Log all four sides
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 20
Burial
Burials 20A & 20B
Baby 1948: 4-30-48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb
- Long axis north-south
- 4 feet 3 inches long by 3 feet 3 inches wide
- Bark floor cover
- Gravel cap
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Bone needle (1)
- broken
- unknown position
3. Bone awl (1)
- broken and burnt
- unknown position
4. Flint knife (2)
- prismatic blade [Photo]
- unknown position
5. Bear claws drilled (3)
- unknown position
6. Elk teeth (6)
- unknown position
7. Potsherds (2)
- probably accidental
- unknown position
8. Burned clay lump (1)
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Prismatic blade
- Charcoal floor preparation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 21
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/03/48
Feature Description:
- Northwest-southeast orientation
- Dirt platform
- Log enclosure, one log high, 2 feet 3 inches long by 1 foot 6 inches wide
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flint chips (4)
- on top of remains
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater
Burial 22
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/04/48
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure four side, one log high [Photo]
- Gravel cover
- 3 feet 7 inches long by 2 feet 7 inches wide
- Long axis north-south
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Potsherd (1) [Photo]
- cord marked
- probably accidental
- above cremation
[Photo]
- Next to Burial 23
- Potsherd
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 23
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/05/48
Feature Description:
- No bark cover
- Log enclosure
- No bark on floor
- North-south orientation
- 4 feet 5 inches long by 3 feet wide
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Trophy mandible (1)
- portions
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Some stone
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 24
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/05/48
Feature Description:
- Long axis northeast-southwest
- Log enclosure
- See photo
- Bark floor cover 1 feet 6 inches
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial
2. Copper headdress (1)
- unknown position
3. Copper fragments (1)
- unknown position
4. Potsherd (1)
- another 505 sherds outside log enclosure
- unknown position
5. Mica fragment (1)
- unknown position
6. Either conch shell or large white stone [Photo]
- [not included in data base]
- [not listed in accession]
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Normal size grave
- Two sides
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 26
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/10/48
Feature Description:
- No preparation logs, bark, or stone
- Clay covered
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 27
Burial
Burials 27A & 27B
Baby 1948:5/11/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor cover and bark cover over body
- Gravel and sand cover
- Long axis north-south orientation
- 4 feet long by 3 feet wide
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Copper adze (1)
- small, 2.5 feet long [Photo]
- beside cremation [Photo]
3. Bone awls (2)
- burned
- among cremated remains
4. Flint point
- [other flint biface]
- “killed”
- fragmentary
5. Box turtle shell (4 fragments)
6. Drilled bear canines (19 fragments)
- burned
7. Pearl beads (?)
8. Animal bone (5 fragments)
9. Light colored rocks on two sides [Photo]
[Photo]
- Light colored rocks on two sides
- Log enclosure with at least three sides
- Copper adze, small, 2.5 feet long, beside cremation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 28
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/12/48
Feature Description:
- Head to southwest
- Bark floor cover
- Log enclosure 1 log high [Greber 1976, Table 31]
- See photo
- Bark cover
- 7 feet 1 inch long by 3 feet 8 inches wide
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
2. Pearl bracelets (2)
- one around right, one around left wrist
3. Pearl necklace (1)
- 252 pearls
- around neck
4. Animal rib (1)
- across right forearm [Photo]
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor preparation
- Four sides
- Animal rib, across right forearm
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 29
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/18/48
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure, one log high
- See photo
- 4 feet 7 inches long by 3 feet 2 inches wide
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- Bark floor cover and above body
- Fine gravel cover
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head northwest
2. Barrel-shaped shell beads (2)
- right side of skull
3. Flint piece (1)
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Three sides
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 30
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/18/48
Feature Description:
- Bark flooring
- 4 feet 6 inches long by 2 feet 8 inches wide
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- Fine gravel cover
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Box turtle shell (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 31
Burial
None
Baby 1948:5/19/48
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure
- Bark floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flake knife (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- near corner at edge of burial
[Photo]
- Two sides
- Small grave
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 32
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/20/48
Feature Description:
- Southwest-northeast orientation
- No formal preparation
- Remains on bark on floor
- Bark cover
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- extended
2. Flint chip (1)
- directly beneath mica
3. Mica piece (1)
- cut
- center of cremation pile
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 33
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/20/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor and body cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains(1)
2. Copper headdress (1)
- unknown position
3. Leaf-shaped blade (1)
- tip only
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Small grave
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 34
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/21/48
Feature Description:
- Long axis northwest-southeast direction
- Bark floor cover
- No other preparation
- Gravel cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partially
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor preparation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater
Burial 35
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/21/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor and body cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partially
2. Mica fragments (2)
- mica strips geometrics
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor preparation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 36
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/21/48
Feature Description:
- Covered with small primary mound
- 2.3 feet diameter
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
[Photo]
- Log tomb four sides
- Some stone
- Normal size
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 37
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 5/25/48
Feature Description:
- Log enclosure, one log high
- See photo
- Bark floor and body cover
- Clay and gravel cover
- Head to west
- 3.8 feet wide, long axis east-west
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended [Photo]
2. Copper earspools (4)
- over mandible
- by ears [Photo]
3. Bear canines (3)
- pearl set, cut and drilled
- in right hand
- two drilled and one with pearl
4. Round shell beads (25)
- left hand
5. Pearl bracelets (2)
- one around right wrist, one around left wrist
6. Trophy skull (1)
- next to left humerus
7. Flake knife (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- right side under chest
8. Copper breastplate (1)
- on stomach
- on chest [Photo]
[Photo]
- Log tomb three sides visible
- Charcoal floor
- Extended
- Copper earspools by ear
- Copper breastplate by chest
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 38
Burial
Burials 38A & 38B
Baby 1948: 6/1/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb, one log high
- Bark floor cover
- Long axis north-south
- 5 feet 5 inches long by 3 feet 9 inches wide
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Copper and iron earspools (2)
- iron on one side
- with 38A [Photo]
3. Platform pipe (1)
- clay
- with 38A [Photo]
- plain [Photo]
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor
- Some stone
- Copper and iron earspools with 38A
- Platform pipe with 38A, plain
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 39
Burial
Burials 39A & 39B
Baby 1948: 6/1/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb
- 5.25 feet long by 3.8 feet wide
- North-south orientation
- Bark floor and body cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (2)
2. Oval shell bead (1)
- Cremation A
- unknown position
3. Shell piece (1)
- Cremation A
- unknown position
4. Bone awl (1)
- broken and burnt
- Cremation B
- among cremated remains
5. Flake knife section (1)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- Cremation B
- among cremated remains
[Photo]
- Four sides
- Charcoal floor preparation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 40
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/4/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb
- Gravel cover
- Bark floor and body cover
- Long axis northwest-southeast
- 2.2 feet by 2.8 feet
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partially
[Photo]
- Four sides
- Charcoal floor preparation
- Burials 41 and 42 nearby
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 41
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/8/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor and gravel cover
- Long axis east-west
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Bone needle (1)
- 4 inch long [Photo]
- on cremation
3. Flake knives (3)
- [other prismatic blade]
- beside cremation (NE side of remains)
[Photo]
- Bone needle 4 inches long
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 42
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/8/48
Feature Description:
- Bark floor and body cover
- Log tomb
- Long axis east-west
- 3.5 feet long by 2.65 feet wide
- Gravel and clay cover
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Ater Mound
Burial 43
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/9/48
Feature Description:
- Clay platform
- 3.3 feet long by 2.4 feet wide
- Long axis is north-south
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Ocean shell container (1)
- northeast corner of cremation
3. Flake knife (1)
- northwest corner of cremation
4. Beads (7 plus) [Photo]
- unknown position
[Photo]
- Beads
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 44
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/11/48
Feature Description:
- Long axis north-south
- Clay and gravel cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- above floor
2. Potsherds (2)
- probably accidental
- unknown position
3. Flint piece (1)
- unknown position
4. Platform pipe (1)
- grey Ohio pipestone
- portion
- unknown position
[Photo]
- On top of a primary mound
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 45
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/11/48
Feature Description:
- Gravel and clay cover
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Ater Mound
Burial 46
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/14/48
Feature Description:
- Above floor
- Long axis is north-south
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (2)
- beside cremation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 47
Burial
Burials 47A, 47B, 47C, 47D
Baby 1948: 6/14/48
Feature Description:
- Charcoal cover
- Kidney shaped with long axis north-south
- See photo
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (4)
No Artifacts (with any of the four)
[Photo]
- Log tomb, logs on four sides
- Grave size normal
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 48
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/15/48
Feature Description:
- Gravel floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Ater Mound
Burial 49
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/17/48
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Ater Mound
Burial 50
Burial
Burials 50A & 50B
Baby 1948: 6/21/48
Chillicothe Gazette 148:152
Feature Description:
- Log tomb, two logs high
- North-south orientation
- Head south
- Bark floor
- 6 feet long by 3.5 feet
- Primary mound
- Gravel cover
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
2. Cremated human remains (1)
- under inhumation
- no artifacts associated specifically with cremation
3. Galena chunks (2)
- very large
- at corners of feature
- at head and feet [Chillicothe Gazette 148:152]
4. Copper breastplate (1)
- under skull
5. Copper earspools (2)
- one in each hand
6. Necklace (1)
- 318 beads
- around neck
7. Flint knives (7)
- [prismatic blade other flint]
- one light grey, six black
- several inches above burial in primary mound
[Photo]
- Charcoal floor preparation
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 51
Burial
Burials 51A & 51B
Baby 1948: 6/22/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb, one log high
- Long axis north-south
- 8.2 feet long by 6.4 feet wide
- Head north
- Bark cover and floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2)
- extended
- head to north for adult and infant
2. Mica fragments (2)
- in dirt above burial
- with infant (?)
3. Bead blanket
- covered a newborn (B51B)
- around 1500 embroidery shells
- above burial
- in southeast corner
4. Copper breastplate (3)
- with two pearls
- one under head with leather attached
- one under back with nine pearls
- one under pelvis with two pearls
5. Copper earspools (2)
- pearls between earspool discs
- near ears
6. Bear canine (4)
- pearl set, drilled
- incised
- at neck
7. Necklace
- 1374 pearl and shell beads
- two beads are large and barrel-shaped
- at neck
8. Copper earspools (2)
- iron on one side
- one in each hand
9. Wolf mandible (2)
- cut and drilled
- upper one third of right forearm
10. Panpipe (1)
- triple tube
- under right hip
11. Marine shells (2)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
12. Copper earspools (4)
- two large
- two small with iron on one side
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
13. Mica geometrics (10 pieces)
- one is fashioned into spear point (Chillicothe Gazette vol. 148 No. 152)
- actually three are shaped like points [Accession #3062/188]
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
14. Beaver tooth (1)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
15. Eagle claws (2)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
16. Worked bear bone (1)
- tibia
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
17. Bone needles
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
18. Flake knife (1)
- [other prismatic blade]
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
19. Copper crescent (1)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
- fragmentary
20. Copper bracelet (1)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
21. Copper breastplate
- On northeast side of tomb floor
- bark residue adheres [perhaps from floor?]
- 15 inches by 8.5 inches (from Museum Echoes vol 21 (7):54 and Chillicothe
Gazette vol 148(152))
22. Turtle shell fragments (24)
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
23. Worked bone (1?)
- no description
23. Flake knives (2)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- between breastplates and offering
24. Ocean shell container (1)
- cut
- in southeast corner area of burial
- near beaded blanket
25. Copper breastplate (1)
- 0.8 feet by 0.4 feet
- under infant’s head
- probably wrapped in fabric
26. Copper adze (1)
- between ankles of adult
- apparently wrapped in fabric
27. Pearl bead bracelet (1)
- 13 beads
- on right wrist
28. Copper pieces (2)
- unshaped
- accompanying offering at left shoulder
[Photo]
- Photo suggests another cremation. Probably represents infant burial.
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Burial 52
Burial
None
Baby 1948: 6/28/48
Feature Description:
- Log tomb
- Long axis east-west
- 4.7 feet long by 3.9 feet wide
- Bark floor and body cover
- Clay and gravel primary mound
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Ater Mound
Cache
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Photos from Ohio Historical Center
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Pottery vessels (5)
- cord marked