Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
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Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Crematory Basin 1
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:9
Feature Description:
- On mound floor
- Rectangular
- 26 inches by 21 inches by four inches deep
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Flint flake (1)
- unknown position
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Pipe Deposit
Ceremonial Deposit
None
Author Unknown n.d.:3
Feature Description:
- Located in center of mound
- One foot above stone cover over a burial
Contents:
1. Platform pipe (1)
- composite creature [snake, bird, perhaps alligator]
- Ohio pipestone
- large
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 1
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.: 10-11
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:1
Feature Description:
- 11 inches above mound floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- position uncertain
- fragmentary
2. Slate gorget (2)
- one is banded slate with one hole
- one is unfinished, 2.5 inches long
- one beside burial
3. Flint points (21)
- leaf shaped
- two are notched
- above skeleton
4. Mica piece (1)
- rectangular
- large sheet
- red pigment beneath plate
- above skeleton
- breastplate-like [Photo]
5. Copper bead (1)
- tubular
- 0.25 inches long
- near burial
6. Flint chipping tool (1)
- antler
- over burial
7. Small pottery vessel (1)
- pipe or bowl
- among flint points
- utilitarian jar [Photo]
8. Cut mica piece (1) [Photo]
- accession says it is unworked
9. Stone celt (1)
10. Red paint [ochre?]
- beneath mica plate
[Photo]
- Utilitarian jar
- Stone celt
- Mica piece breastplate-like
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 2
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:12-13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:2
Feature Description:
- Small depression two inches into mound floor
- Evidence of fire in one foot diameter around depression
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. White Marl-like material (7 pieces)
- beneath skeleton
- probably the gorget for this burial
- perforated
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 3
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:2
Feature Description:
- 67 inches northeast of Burial 2
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Potsherds (3 vessels)
- 41 sherds total
- unknown position
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 4
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:3
Author Unknown, n.d:11
Feature Description:
- 37 inches above floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- above floor
- head to east
2. Pottery vessel (3) [Photo]
- one is small
- two are large
- 15 inches east of skull
3. Copper celt (1)
- small
- broken in two
- one piece in each hand
4. Hair ornament (1)
- possibly broach
- silver covered copper
- on vertebrae
5. Mica piece (1)
- unworked
6. Ocean shell container (1)
- cassius
- near head with pots on right side [Photo]
7. Bone awl (1)
- inside pottery vessel with tortoise shell
8. Pearl beads (6)
- four were spherical
- 3 inches from hair ornament
9. Pieces of tortoise shell (9)
- inside pottery vessel
[Photo]
- No floor and wall prep, unknown cover prep, no apparent body wrap, platform
absent
- Pottery vessel
- Ocean shell container near head with pots on right side
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 5
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:4
Feature Description:
- Six inches above floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 6
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:4
Feature Description:
- 41 inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- badly decayed
- skull west
2. Arrow points (2)
- notched
- one on sternum, black flint, 1.5 inches long
- one beneath pelvis
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 7
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:5
Feature Description:
- Five inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull only
2. Panpipes (1)
- copper with silver plate
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 8
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:5
Feature Description:
- On floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 9
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:5
Feature Description:
- 2.5 feet above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- mandible with 4 teeth
2. Drill (1)
- brown flint
- unknown position
3. Gorget of stone (1)
- perforated
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 10
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:6
Feature Description:
- Earthen pocket of earth built on floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 11
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:14
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:6
Feature Description:
- Above floor
- One foot below mound surface
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- badly disintegrated skull
2. Pottery vessel (1)
- unknown position
3. Flint projectile point (1)
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 12
Burial
Burials 12A & 12B
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:6
Feature Description:
- Three feet above floor and 10 inches below surface
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2)
- skulls only
No Artifacts
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 13
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:7
Feature Description:
- Two feet east of Burial 12
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 14
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:13
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:7
Feature Description:
- 26 inches above floor
- Near northern edge of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- upper part of skull only
No Artifacts
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 15
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:14
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:8
Feature Description:
- 10 inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- piece of skull, radius, and ulna only
2. Stone celts (2)
- slate
- long and polished
- unknown position
3. Flint flake (1)
- black
- knife or scraper
- secondary chipping
- unknown position
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 16
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d.:12
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:8
Feature Description:
- Above floor by nine inches
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- bad condition
- head northeast
2. Slate gorget (2)
- two holes in one
- one hole in other
- one near right humerus
- one unknown position
3. Slate hoe (1)
- unknown position
4. Sandstone elbow pipe (1)
- at right hip
5. Notched arrow points (3)
- by left hip
6. Short copper rod (1)
- bone handle
- flint chipping tool is suggested
- “bone” handle is probably human finger or toe bone
- “copper awl” [suggested in field notes]
- by right humerus
Site:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 17
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:9
Author Unknown n.d:10
Feature Description:
- About on floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head East
2. Stone celt (1)
- neck
3. Flint drill (1)
- on chest
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 18
Burial
Burials 18A & 18B
Greenman & Goslin 1930a:9
Author Unknown n.d:10
Feature Description:
- On floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2)
- flexed on back
- head south
- infant skeleton beside adult
2. Pottery vessel (9 potsherds, 1 vessel)
- 1 foot away from burial
Site:
Provenience:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 19
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d:10
Feature Description:
- Burial under two stones
- Under Mound 1 pipe cache
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull, rib fragments, right clavicle
Site:
Provenience:
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Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 20
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d:10
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 1, Burial 21
Burial
None
Author Unknown n.d:10
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 1
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:1
Feature Description:
- On mound floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- flexed on right side
- head south
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 2
Burial
Burials 2A & 2B
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:1
Author Unknown n.d:17
Feature Description:
- Disturbed by tree roots
- 34 inches below surface
- One skull on top of the other, third skull is 36 inches away
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (2 or 3)
- 3 skulls, 2 skeletons
- lone skull is 36 inches from skeletons
2. Gorget (2)
- one is slate with one hole
- one is brown slate unperforated
3. Pottery vessel (1)
- represented by 4 potsherds
- unknown position
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 3
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:2
Feature Description:
- Five inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head to north
- height 54” to distal tibia
- foot and hand bones missing
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 4
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:2
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- femoral segments only
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 5
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:3
Feature Description:
- On floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 6
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:3
Feature Description:
- 24 inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- part of skull and a few ribs
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 7
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:3
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- scattered over area of 1 square yard
2. Mica piece (1)
- uncut
- beside burial
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 8
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:4
Feature Description:
- No preparation
- Four inches above Burial 9
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
2. Pile of small mica sheets
- uncut
- beside burial
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 9
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:4
Feature Description:
- Four inches below Burial 8
- Four inches above floor
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (1)
- partial
- lower limbs apparently not cremated
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 10
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:4
Feature Description:
- Two inches above floor
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull and atlas only
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 11
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:5
Feature Description:
- On floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- bones of right arm and face only
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 12
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:5
Feature Description:
- Skull is 40 inches above mound floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head to south (per map)
- semi-seated position [Photo]
[Photo]
- No wall prep, cover prep unknown, no apparent body prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 13A
Burial
Burials 13A & 13B
Author Unknown n.d:17-18
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:6
Feature Description:
- Nine inches above floor and 28 inches below surface
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- head to west
2. Gorget (1)
- [pendant/gorget]
- banded slate with two holes
- right side of skull
3. Stone celt (1)
- slate
- above head
4. Worked flint piece (1)
- right side of head
5. Flint drills (5)
- above head
6. Projectile point (1)
- notched
- near head
7. Projectile points (22)
- leaf shaped and triangular
- others above head
- triangular on right side of head
8. Stone pendant (1)
- above head
9. Bone point (1)
- above head
10. Flint chipping tool (1)
- made of bone
- above head
11. Water worn pebbles (2)
- sandstone
- above head
12. Granite hammerstone (1)
- above head
13. Platform pipe (1)
- steatite (black)
- plain
- near head
- apparently well used
14. Pottery vessel (1)
- four potsherds
- above head
15. Antler points (6)
- above head
16. Imitation bear canine (1)
- perforated
- bone
- above head
17. Copper rod with bone handle (1)
- above head
- bone handle probably human finger
18. Elk antler piece (1)
- 24 centimeters long
- awl
- above head
19. Cylindrical copper piece (1)
- [copper bead]
- 3/8 inch by 1/8 inch
- under slate gorget
20. Beaver incisor (1)
- above head
21. Flint point (1)
- notched
- long and brown
- near head
[Photo]
- Cover prep is unknown, no apparent body wrap
- No platform
- No floor and wall prep
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
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Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 13B
Burial
Burials 13A & 13B
Author Unknown n.d:17-18
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:6
Feature Description:
- May not have been buried at same time as Burial 13A
- 14 inches above the base of Burial 13A
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull only
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 14
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:7
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- skull only
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 15
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:7
Feature Description:
- Eight inches below surface
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 16
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:7
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 17
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:7
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 18
Burial
None
Unknown n.d:19
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:8
Feature Description:
- On floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- mandible only
2. Cylindrical copper beads (10)
- near neck
3. Earthen pots (2)
- near “head” of burial 18
- extending to 20 inches below mound surface
- one with incised decoration
- one Hopewell zoned stamped jar [Photo]
- ordinary utilitarian cord, marked jar [Photo]
[Photo]
- Hopewell zoned stamped jar
- Ordinary utilitarian cord – marked jar
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 19
Burial
None
Unknown n.d:19
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:8
Feature Description:
- Seven inches above floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head South
2. Celt (1)
- stone hornblende
- near head with pipe
- crude
3. Platform pipe (1)
- clay
- near head with celt
- plain [photo]
4. Pottery vessel (1)
- 11 potsherds
- unknown position
[Photo]
- No body wrap visible
- Platform pipe plain
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 20
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:8
Feature Description:
- 32 inches below surface
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- fragmentary
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 21
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:9
Feature Description: No information given.
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head northeast
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Other Relevant Sources:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 22
Burial
None
Unknown n.d:19
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:9
Feature Description:
- In depression in floor
- 19 inches below floor
- See photo
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- head to south
2. Large cooper earspools (2)
- one in each hand
- one has silver in central depression
[Photo]
- No wall preparation, cover and body preparation unknown
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Esch Mounds
Mound 2, Burial 23
Burial
None
Greenman & Goslin 1930b:9
Feature Description:
- Depression in floor of mound
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- pelvis and vertebrae only
No Artifacts