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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 300

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0 inches above the floor of the char-nel house. The platform was usually higher in the center, grad-ually sloping to the sides and ends, where logs averaging about6 inches in diameter had been placed, usually in the form of aparallelogram. The clay used in the construction of the grave * The Edwin… … 288 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Publications. had the appearance of having been puddled before being used,and in many instances, after the coating of puddled clay hadbeen placed over the grave, a fire was built and the clay burnedto a light red. The ashes and any charcoal that might remainwere…

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