Site:
Provenience:
Provenience Type:
Burials in Same Grave:
Primary Source:
Lee Mound
Scattered Cremations
Burial
Unknown
McPherson 1921:1
Feature Description:
- Apparently found scattered throughout the body of the mound
Contents:
1. Cremated human remains (3-4?)
- the ashes were “scattered through the earth”
- “probably no more than three or four cremations had been deposited in the entire
mound
Note: The following artifacts were found, scattered through the mound in a manner
similar to the cremations themselves, but not clearly associated with any particular
concentration of cremated bone:
1) Slate gorgets (4)
- two were perforated with two holes, two were unperforated
2) Slate tube pipe (1)
- short, flat bottomed
3) Ceremonial spear (1)
- Ohio flint
- over 7 inches in length
- pinkish in color
- broken in two, the pieces found several feet apart
4) Arrow heads (5?)
- small
5) Flint hammerstone (part of 1)
6) Utilitarian pottery (?)
- 22 sherds