Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Kohl Mound
Mound 1, Burial 1
Burial
None
Whitman 1977:4-5
Feature Description:
- Crypt surrounding burial constructed of limestone boulders varying in size from six
inches to 24 inches in diameter
- Sandstone slabs lay against the boulders
- Six feet diameter crypt
- Interior of crypt covered with ashes and decayed charcoal
- Possible log enclosure
- Boulders are red, yellow, and grey
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- jaw, teeth, and femur fragments
- head North with North-south orientation
- feet laying against an “altar stone”
- cut 24 inches long by 12 inches wide by 14 inches high
- extended, partly cremated
- sex could not be determined
- mid to late 30s (dental wear)
2. Crushed human skull bowl
- on “altar stone”
- beside feet
3. Limestone boulders (4)
- two painted yellow, one at feet, one at head
- two painted red, one on either side next to shoulder
4. Snyder’s point (1)
- [other flint biface point]
- in ribcage area
5. Yellow-grey unifacial Flint Ridge prismatic blades (3)
- [other prismatic flint blade]
- located beside head
6. Black flint flake (1)
- [flint raw/scrap]
- located beside head
7. Rectangular sandstone hammerstone (1)
- located beside head
8. Thin sandstone grooved tablet (1)
- located beside head
9. Grey cone shaped clay object (1)
- located beside head
- above head in fill
10. Grey flint poplar leaf shaped flake (1)
- [flint raw/scrap]
- above head in fill
11. Ground hematite (1)
- diamond shaped
- above head in fill
12. Yellow-grey Flint Ridge flint flakes (2)
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- above head in fill
- from same core as above yellow flakes
13. Sandstone balls (2)
- possibly from rattle
- above head in fill
14. Proximal portion of a large ceremonial blade (1)
- [other flint biface]
- 6.7 centimeters in length by 5.4 centimeters in width at break
- above head in fill
15. Throughout fill was red and yellow ochre
- above head in fill
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Kohl Mound
Mound 1, Burial 2
Burial
None
Whitman 1977:5
Feature Description:
- North of central Burial 1 crypt
- Partially protected by a line of limestone boulders
- Lay at head of Burial 1 but outside crypt wall
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- badly deteriorated
- scattered (rodent activity)
- sex could not be determined
- early 20s (dental wear)
2. Two (2) Classic Hopewellian unifacial flake caches
- [other flint prismatic blade]
- 45 blades in total
- yellow, red, and grey
- near body
3. Large bifacial flaked blades of black Upper Mercer (2)
- [other flint bifaces]
- near head
4. Piece of ground hematite (1)
- near head
5. Round copper bead (1)
- near head
6. Sandstone abrading stone (1)
- near head
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Kohl Mound
Mound 1, Burial 3
Burial
None
Whitman 1977:5
Feature Description:
- South of Burial 1
- Located “behind altar stone” from Burial 1 crypt
- Protected by a circle of grey limestone boulders
- Bones lay against a 14 inch square limestone boulder painted with red ochre
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- fragments of radius, ulna, femur
- laid against a 14 inch square limestone boulder
- east-west orientation with head to west
- sex could not be determined
- early 20s (dental wear)
2. Cooper panpipe (1)
- lay against jaw
3. Hematite tablet (1)
- 7.1 centimeters by 3.8 centimeters
4. Rectangular shale object
- one half
- unknown position
5. Bar of Ohio pipestone (1)
- four centimeters
- red and yellow
- may have been an amulet
- unknown position
6. Grey flint flakes (3)
- [flint raw/scrap]
- lay in fill directly above burial and directly in association with the “altar stone”
7. Limestone boulder painted red (1)
- unknown position