H is only a point marked by great numbers of flint chippings and broken arrow-heads. G is a grave on the farm of Thomas Knox, but I have not seen it. E is on the farm of John Ludwich, in Boyle County, and F on that of Mrs. E and F are points on Salt River, above and below A, where remains of pottery, &c., have been found but their real character cannot be determined. Thomas Hyle, and and D on that of Cornelius Terhune. If ever covered with earth, time has removed it down to the rocks. There seemed to have been a stone cist erected on or near the surface of the ground and then rocks appear to have been set on edge around it, until a space 10 or 12 feet square was inclosed. In one, the body seemed to have been buried horizontally, on the right side, with the head to the east the position of the others is unknown. They have all been opened, and each contained one skeleton, without implements or ornaments so far as known. B, C, D were within a mile of A, and were single graves. The mound was built of earth taken from the vicinity, and there were evidently some large stones in connection with it, but how they were placed is not known. From the number of fragments of various stones, it seems that there was a workshop here, and so I have located one on the map. Some of these may have been thrown up by the plow and scattered over the space near the mound. been found a great number of specimens of broken crockery, plain and ornamented in crossed lines grooved axes of greenstone celts in greenstone, jasper, agate, hornstone, and limestone pipes, arrow and lance heads, chisels, grinding stones, pestles, sinkers, flint flakes and cores, ornaments in slates and other colored stones bones of fish and many animals, horns of deer and elk, teeth of bears, &c. ground is freshly plowed, there is a regular parallelogram, where the uniform lines of black earth, charcoal, and burnt bones show the former presence of fires long continued at that point. ![]() Between those points there must have been a village of huts or some form of habitation for even now, when the The mound stood 200 yards from the stream. The river bank here is only about 15 feet high, and the slope back from the river is not more than 2°. ![]() From it have been taken, as cultivation yearly went on, the bones of a number of human skeletons, none of which were retained, few of them being in a good state of preservation the skulls crushed to fragments and the soft ends of the bones, with few exceptions, gone entirely, I do not know that any relics have been taken from the mound proper, except some shell beads. The mound has also been removed by the plow. The ground has been cleared, and the continual cultivation of the land has filled up the ditches and removed all traces of any lines that once existed. There is no mound near this, but only the remains dug out of ditches." The other ruins were about a mile and a half above this, both being on the west bank of Salt River. This was probably a place of human sacrifice. The handle was attached to it, and human hair lay on the coals. Its lower root drew up a large piece of crockery- ware which had been on some fire coals. On one side of the mound a hickory tree, about 2 feet in diameter, grew and was blown up by the roots, making a hole 3 or 4 feet deep. ![]() Speaking of ancient towns and fortifications, it says: "There are two of these, both on Salt River, about 4 miles above Harrodsburg, containing ditches and a mound 10 or 12 feet high, filled with human bones and broken pieces of crockeryware. The first notice given of this point is found in "Collins' History of Kentucky," under the head of Mercer County. The point of greatest interest (A on the map) is situated on the west bank of Salt River, in Mercer County, a little north of its union with Boyle County, on a farm owned by Dr. They will be alluded to more particularly in the following notes by the letters that are connected with them. On the map of Boyle and Mercer Counties I have located all points of interest that I have been able to learn. In the counties of Boyle and Mercer, State of Kentucky, there are a number of mounds, graves, &c., which were constructed by former inhabitants of the country, and many aboriginal implements have been found.
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