Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Tremper Mound
Communal Deposits 1-4
Burial
Commingled Burial
Mills 1916:277
Figures 20, 21, 22
Feature Description:
Feature 1:
- Made of fine puddled clay
- Shape of parallelogram ten feet three inches by five feet
- Probably contains hundred’s of bodies
Feature 2-4: (figure 20, 21, 22)
- Prepared bases of clay
- At least 375 bodies total in the four deposits
[Photo]
- Depository 8
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Tremper Mound
Mills 1916:280A
Burial
None
Mills 1916:280
Feature Description:
- Placed in the angle formed by two walls and surrounded by posts
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Tremper Mound
Mills 1916:280B
Burial
None
Mills 1916:280
Feature Description:
- 2.5 feet above floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flint spear point (1)
- [other flint odd biface]
- six inches long
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Tremper Mound
Mills 1916:280C
Burial
None
Mills 1916:280C
Feature Description:
- 3.5 feet deep holes in floor
- Seven feet long by three feet wide
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Tremper Mound
Mills 1916:280D
Burial
None
Mills 1916:280
Feature Description:
- 3.5 feet deep by seven feet long by five feet wide
- The floor was made up of the sandstone strata underlying the site
- The grave was surrounded by a wall of thin slabs of sandstone, forming a vault-like
receptacle
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Copper earspools (4)
- unknown position
3. Mica crescent (8)
- Moon shaped
- 7-10 inches
- unknown position
4. Mica bear effigy (1)
- unknown position
5. Flint spear point (1)
- small
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Tremper Mound
Small Cache
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Mills 1916:284-285
Feature Description:
- Apparently constructed and filled all at one time during construction of the mound
- Near center of the mound 2.5 feet above the floor line
Contents:
1. Platform pipes (9)
- many of red Ohio pipestone
- probably all were plain
2. Earspools (2)
- red Ohio pipestone
3. Pierced state tablet (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Tremper Mound
Large Cache
Ceremonial Deposit
Not Applicable
Mills 1916:285
Thew n.d.
Figure 111
Feature Description:
- Located in the central of the three rooms at the east end of the structure
- Roughly six feet in diameter and found along the south side of the unused
depository at floor level
- Artifacts were piled in a heap with the large stone disk at its center
- All artifacts intentionally broken
- Appears to have taken considerable time for the artifacts to accumulate
Contents:
1. Platform pipes (136)
- bird, animal, and plain
- 106 were fully restored
- 60 are effigies: bear, mountain lion, wildcat, raccoon, porcupine, opossum,
beaver, otter, dog, rabbit , mink, deer , fox, wolf, squirrel, owls, king fisher,
heron, sand hill crane, crow, Carolina parakeet, eagle, hawk, owl, quail, songbird
- all are Ohio pipestone except for the limestone large eagle
- 46 are plain
- 30 were not restorable, many show signs of previous breakage and repair
- 20 were bird effigies
- 10 were otter, beaver, and plain
2. Copper beads
- attached to woven fabric
3. Gorgets
4. Copper boat shaped objects
- pierced with two holes at center
- pink and white pebbles
- two contain quartzite pebbles
- in one they are broken
- in one not broken
5. Mica crystals sheets
- large pieces
- from 8-10 inch diameter and 0.25 inch thick
6. Galena crystals (“quite a number”)
- conical in shape
7. Animal jaws (“hundreds of pieces”)
- cut and broken
- bear, mountain lion, wildcat
- black bear and grizzly bear (Thew n.d.:2)
- wolf and coyote (Thew n.d.:2-3)
- cougar and bobcat (Thew n.d.:3)
8. Human trophy jaws
- cut and broken
9. Flint knives, arrowheads, spearheads
10. Mealing stones (6)
- five of granite with pestle
- piled together on one side of deposit
11. Woven fabric
- burned fragments
12. Large stone disk (1)
- fine grained sandstone
- 11.5 inches diameter and 0.5 inches thick
- pigment grinder with evidence of red pigment
13. Boat stones (2)
- one is swimming beaver
- one resembles beetle shell
- each has two holes as with copper boat shaped objects
14. Copper cones (2)
- one contained pink and white quartzite pebbles as did the copper boat stones
15. Reel-shaped ornaments stone and copper (“several”)
- generally closely associated
- one is made of reddish brown slate with bands of black
- 3.75 inches by three inches
16. Cone-shaped objects of quartz and stone
- quartz (2)
- Ohio black shale (1)
17. Paint cup (1)
- oval course grained sandstone
- near large stone disk
- half full of red pigment
- 3.125 inches diameter by 1.5 inches thick
18. Pierced tablets (“present in large numbers”)
- Ohio black shale and laurentain slate
- one has “claw” design on it
- possibly used in hair
- one is in “bear canine effigy”