Ohio History Journal

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PAINTED SKELETONS

PAINTED SKELETONS.

 

BY WM. C. MILLS,

Curator Ohio State Archaeological Historical Society.

Very peculiar burials have been reported from the western

part of Concord Township, Ross County, Ohio. The burials

were first brought to my notice by Mr. A. B. Coover of Roxa-

bell, Ohio, who removed several skeletons from a gravel pit in

the western part of Concord Township, and these were covered

with red ocre. One year later Mr. Almer Hegler, of Wash-

ington C. H., notified me that a number of skeletons, covered

with red ocre, had been removed from a gravel pit in the

western part of the county and at the same time invited me

to visit the place. Upon examination I found the country is

here and there dotted over with a number of gravel kames

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