13. Horizontal, lying on the back, head southeast; copper and shell beads around the neck and wrists, a hook or crescent shaped piece of copper on the breast, a food-cup (with handle) lying on its side with mouth close to the face, a pipe near the mouth, and two celts over the head. 14. Horizontal, lying on the back, head northeast, arms extended; each hand resting on a shell which had evidently been engraved, though the figures are almost totally obliterated. 15. Horizontal, on the back, head west, knees drawn up; stone implements at the feet. 16. Too much decayed to determine the position. 17. Four skeletons in one grave, horizontal, heads toward the east, and large rocks lying on the legs below the knees; no implements. 18. Two skeletons in one grave, heads west, faces down, knees drawn up; no implements. 19. On the back, horizontal, head east; no implements. 20. Sitting, with face toward the east, walled in, a large rock lying on the feet (though this may have fallen from the wall); no implements. 21. Sitting, walled in; over the head, but under the capstone of the vault, a handful of flint arrow-heads. 22. Doubled up, with the head between the feet. A. A solid oval-shaped mass of bowlders, 33 inches long, 22 inches wide, and 24 inches high, resting on the bottom of the pit. No ashes or other indications of fire about it. Fragments of pottery, mica, galena, charcoal, red and black paint, and stone chips were found scattered in small quantities through the earth which filled the pit. All the celts were more or less polished. _R. T. Lenoir burial pit._--This is a circular burial pit, similar to those already described, but without any rounding up of the surface. It is located on the farm of Mr. Rufus T. Lenoir, about 9 miles northeast of Lenoir and nearly a mile west of Fort Defiance. A diagram showing the relative positions of the graves or burials is given in Fig. 33. It is on the first river terrace or bottom of Buffalo Creek and some 200 yards from the stream, which empties into the Yadkin about half a mile southwest of this point. This bottom is subject to overflow in time of high water. The pit, which is 27 feet in diameter and about 3-1/2 feet deep, is almost a perfect circle, and well marked, the margin, which is nearly perpendicular, and the bottom being easily traced. The dirt in this case, as in the others, was all thrown out. No. 1. A bed of charred or rather burnt bones, occupying a space 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, and about 1 foot deep. The bones were so thoroughly burned that it was impossible to determine whether they were human or animal. Beneath this bed the yellow sand was baked to the depth of 2 or 3 inches. Under the bones was an uncharred shell gorget. No. 2. A skeleton in a sitting posture, facing northeast; a pipe near the mouth and a polished celt over the head. No. 3. Sitting, facing east, with shell beads around the neck and also around the arms just below the shoulders.