62797. One of the most instructive finds in this mound is a pair of
brass pins, of undoubted European manufacture. The collector makes the
statement, with entire confidence in its correctness, that they had
been encased in the earth at the time of the interment of the bodies.
One was associated with the upper and the other with the lower layer
of bones. In size and shape they resemble our ordinary brass toilet
pin. The head is formed of a spiral coil of wire, the diameter of
which is about one-half that of the shaft of the pin. It is also
stated by the collector that an iron bolt was found in the lower
stratum of bones. This object was unfortunately lost.
62795. A small brass cylinder, found 3 feet 7 inches below the surface
of the mound. The thin sheet of which the coil is made is about 1 inch
square. The edges are uneven. It was probably used as a bead.