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Ohio archæological and historical quarterly (1887)

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society · Columbus : Published for the Society by A.H. Smythe · leaf 143

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rPutnam left off. His examinations were for the most part car-ried on by means of tunnels, and I quote from his report:° Our work upon the mound was begun July 226. andended the evening of August 9th. We first cleaned out the endof the trench abandoned by Professor Putnam, and measuringthe mound… … Explorations of the Edwin Harness Mound. 129 started in with a trench some thirty feet in width, being a littlewider than the excavation he had conducted. We had proceededtwelve or fifteen feet when we ascertained that burials followedeach other pretty much the same distance apart on either side…

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