Key for Russell Brown Mound 2 by the Liberty Earthwork
Verbatim from Seeman and Soday (1980:84-87):
The floor of Russell Brown-2 was 79 cm below the center of the mound and extended over an area of about 12 x 24 m. Associated with this floor were 12 post molds as well as several specialized features. Ten of the post molds were in the western portion of the mound and may represent the remains of a small structure associated with Feature-3. Several contained burned earth, burned clay and/or charcoal which suggests that the structure that they represent was burned. Five features appear to be directly associated with this floor:
1.
Feature-3 : a large basin-shaped pit, 183 cm in diameter and 33-cm deep. At the center of this pit were hundreds of cache blade pieces. On the southern edge of this concentration were two broken blade cores of Flint Ridge flint. Over these artifacts had been placed several layers of potsherds. Sherds that could be associated with this deposit include: 23 grit-tempered, plain and burnished sherds (Seip plain); 3 grit-tempered, unzoned and plain-rocked body sherds (Chillicothe Rocker-stamped); 4 grit-tempered, simple-stamped body sherds (Turner Simple Stamped); 28 grit-tempered, cordmarked body sherds
(McGraw Cordmarked); 102 grit-tempered, plain bodysherds (McGraw Plain); 27 grittempered, indeterminate body sherds; and 4 grit-tempered, plain rim sherds (McGraw
Plain). In addition to the pottery, stone tools and debitage were recovered from the fill of this feature. These include: one unburned perforator of Flint Ridge flint. Although some charcoal was present in the fill, there was no indication that the pit itself had been burned.
2.
Feature-20 : a charred log lying 8 cm above the floor in yellow soil. It was 43-cm long and 8 cm in diameter.
3.
Feature-27 : a charred log lying 10 cm below the floor. It was 76-cm long and 10 cm in diameter.
4.
Feature-28 : a basin-shaped pit that was 31 cm in diameter and 13-cm deep. It appeared to have a rock layer at the bottom and was surrounded by burned limestone fragments. It was filled with charcoal and flint debitage.
5.
Feature-72 : a small basin-shaped pit 18 cm in diameter and 8-cm deep. It originated at the floor and contained ashes, charcoal, and a burned prismatic blade fragment of Flint
Ridge flint.
Above the central floor of the mound was a distinct burned horizon approximately 11-m long, 8-m wide and 10-cm thick. This horizon is generally similar to the burned zone of Mound-
1, and shows the same type of differential burning across its surface. A few isolated sherds, two burned corner-notched point bases of Flint Ridge flint, one small unburned prismatic blade core of Harrison County flint, and several prismatic blade fragments were recorded as associated with the burned zone. Additional prismatic blades and blade fragments are simply reported as having come from “general digging” in the mound, but their largely burned condition argues that most of them were also associated with the burned zone.
Thirty-four post molds in the central and western portion of the mound originate at a height above the mound floor which is approximately congruent with the top of the burned zone.
Thirteen of these appear to define the eastern wall of an ovoid structure. Presumably the western limit of this building is represented by the western border of the burned zone. Many of the post molds associated with the burned horizon contained charred wood and at least one of them contained a substantial portion of the charred post burned in situ. Measurements on all 46 post

molds from the mound indicate that they were used to construct a fairly substantial structure
(mean length = 48.3 cm, s = 16.6; mean diameter = 16.3 cm, s = 7.7).
Four features were associated with the structure that the burned zone and post-mold pattern represent:
6.
Feature-36 : an area within the burned zone approximately 137 cm in diameter and 10-cm thick characterized by intensive burning. The soil in this area was burned to a deep brick red.
7.
Feature-37 : a basin-shaped pit 102 cm in diameter and 13-cm thick. It originated at or near the bottom of the burned zone and contained burned soil, charcoal, pot sherds, prismatic blades, flakes and fire-cracked rock. Sherds associated with this feature include: 16 grit-tempered, simple-stamped body sherds (Turner Simple Stamped); 22 grit-tempered, plain body sherds (McGraw Plain); 2 grit-tempered, cordmarked body sherds (McGraw Cordmarked); 1 grit-tempered plain-rocked and unzoned body sherd
(Chillicothe Rocker-stamped); 22 grit-tempered, indeterminate body sherds; 3 grittempered, plain rims (McGraw Plain); and 1 grit-tempered, incised and punctuated rim
(Hopewell rim). Nine prismatic blade fragments were recovered from this feature. All of them were made of Flint Ridge flint and seven of them had been burned.
8.
Feature-41 : a concentration of four burned projectile point fragments made of Flint
Ridge Flint, and located near the northwestern margin of the burned zone.
9.
Feature-87 : a concentration in the southern portion of the burned zone of burned projectile point fragments. They represent a minimum of four different corner-notched points. Three of them were made of Flint Ridge flint while the fourth was made of the same gray fossiliferous chert that was used to manufacture a number of the cache blades in Feature-3.
In addition, there are three additional features which lie outside of this immediate area, but which originate on approximately the same level:
10.
Feature-21 : an elliptical pit 74-cm long, 51-cm wide and 22-cm deep. It originated 30 cm above the mound floor in yellow soil and was on about the same level as the top of the burned zone. The fill of this pit contained a few burned flint flakes, charcoal and several hundred small, burned bone fragments. The latter included one burned fragment of an adult human anterior tooth and the burned cranial fragments of a subadult (C.O.
Lovejoy, personal communication).
11.
Feature-4 9: an elliptical pit 114-cm long, 102-cm wide, and 10-cm deep. It originated 15 cm above the floor in yellow soil and was on the same level as the bottom of the adjacent portion of the burned horizon. It contained 4 grit-tempered, cordmarked sherds (McGraw
Cordmarked); 1 unburned prismatic blade fragment of Flint Ridge Flint; a few flakes; 2 fire-cracked rocks; charcoal; ash; and several hundred small burned bone fragments.
Specific elements that could be identified included: one burned adult human phalanges, five burned fragments of adult human long bone, one burned fragment of adult human sphenoid, one burned fragment of subadult human mandible with an open crypt for M
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(age = five years), one burned fragment of a large, adult nonhuman mammal (probably deer) and one burned fragment of bird bone (C.O. Lovejoy, personal communication).
The soil surrounding this feature did not appear to have been burned.
12.
Feature-73 : a large elliptical pit 234-cm long, 117-cm wide and 30-cm deep. It contained a large number of pot sherds, some of which appeared to have been deposited in layers, as well as prismatic blades and debitage. The soil in the center of this feature was burned

to a deep brick red from the top of the feature to the bottom. Specific sherds that could be identified with this pit include 10 grit-tempered, simple-stamped body sherds (Turner
Simple Stamped); 1 grit-tempered, plain-rocked and zoned body sherd (Chillicothe
Rocker-Stamped); 8 grit-tempered, cordmarked body sherds (McGraw Cordmarked); 24 grit-tempered, plain body sherds (McGraw Plain); and three grit-tempered, indeterminate body sherds. The lithic material from this feature included one heat-spalled cobble of local pebble chert, three burned flakes of Flint Ridge flint, one unburned flake of Flint
Ridge flint, one unburned flake of Harrison County chert, one unburned flake of local pebble chert, four burned prismatic blade fragments of Flint Ridge flint and one unburned prismatic blade fragment of Flint Ridge flint.