Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial A
Burial
None
Mills 1919:159
Feature Description:
- Disturbed by relic hunters
- Three feet below baseline, with mound later erected over it
- Located “at the edge of the spur, overlooking the valley”
- Adjacent to Burial 5
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- many bones taken by relic hunters
2. Copper objects (?)
- now lost
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial B
Burial
None
Mills 1919:159-160
Feature Description:
- Disturbed by relic hunters
- Located 10 feet from the southern rim of the mound, 12 feet east of center, and 2 ½
feet above the baseline
- Body was laid on a “carpet of bark”
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- most bones taken by relic hunters
Apparently No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial C
Burial
None
Mills 1919:160
Feature Description:
- Disturbed by relic hunters
- Located near top of mound, about 12 feet east of center
- Located near Burial 1 and Burial 2
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- most bones taken by relic hunters
2. Shell beads (“a quantity of”)
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial 1
Burial
None
Mills 1919:160
Feature Description:
- Located five feet below the top of the mound and 12 feet east of center
- A fine layer of white ash covered the bottom of the grave
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- body turned on its side
- head to south
2. Shell bead strands (2)
- around neck (52 beads) [accession list]
- all larger and from columna of marine shells
- in abdominal region (75 beads) [accession list]
- most are button-shape
3. Flint spear (1)
- dark, nodular flint
- five inches in length
- found beside feet of skeleton
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial 2
Burial
None
Mills 1919:160-161
Feature Description:
- Located west of Burial 1 by two feet
- Lying on ashes, and leaves and twigs
- Ashes also sprinkled over body
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- very well preserved
- old woman (missing all teeth but lower incisors)
- head to south
2. Shell bead strand
- around neck
- mostly small but extremely well made
- nine beads were large, about ¾ inch thick
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Fortney Mound
Burial 3
Burial
None
Mills 1919:160-161
Feature Description:
- Located 20 feet east of center, 6 ½ feet below top of the mound
- Body was laid on a layer of bark
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- adult female
- extended
- all bones present except for the feet
- probable secondary burial
No Artifacts
Site:
Provenience:
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Relevant Figures & Plates:
Fortney Mound
Burial 4
Burial
None
Mills 1919:161, 163
Mills 1919:Figure 4
Feature Description:
- Central burial
- Grave was excavated into partially built mound about 3 feet deep to close to the
mound floor
- Oak bark lined the bottom and sides of the grave, extending onto the upper mound
surface
- Flat stones (limestones and shale) were placed around edges of the bottom of the
grave
- A double row of logs was placed on top of the stones, forming a square “pen” 12
feet by 12 feet
- Body was covered with fine layer of ash
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- feet to the east
- traces of paint were evident on the arms and legs
2. Copper axe (1) [Mills 1919, figure 4]
- large (9 inches by 5 inches)
- double-wrapped in cloth and buckskin
- weighs 5 pounds
- unfinished
- across knees
3. Shell bead strand (1)
- 275 beads [accession list]
- all small beads
- around neck
Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Relevant Figures & Plates:
Fortney Mound
Burial 5
Burial
None
Mills 1919:163, 166
Mills 1919:Figure 6
Feature Description:
- Subterranean burial near the edge of the spur on which the mound was built
- Just west of Burial A
- Sides of grave lined with bark
- 1 ½ feet below baseline
Contents:
1. Human skeletal remains (1)
- extended
- some bones missing
- adult
2. Copper plate (1) [Mills 1919, figure 6]
- large (13 inches by 5 inches)
- thinly beaten
- on chest
- finely polished and had been wrapped in cloth
3. Limestone gorget (1)
- 3 inches by 4 inches
- white
- pierced with two holes
- beneath copper plate
4. Shell beads (4-5)
- snow white
- scattered about the gorget