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large marine shells, belonging perhaps to the genus luecinum?, cut in such a manner as to serve for domestic utensils, and nearly converted into a state of chalk; several copper articles, each consisting of two sets of circular concave and convex plates. The interior one of each sort connected with the other by a hollow axis, around which had been wound some lint. Other articles have been found there, consisting of pure copper, human bones of different sizes, sometimes enclosed in rude stone coffins, but oftener lying blended with the earth, surrounded by a portion of ashes and charcoal. (Arch: Com: 162) Iron and steel utensils and ornaments have also been found. There was dug up from the central mound at Circleville, a fragment of some culinary vessel. It was evidently of cast iron, and showed the marks of the mould. It was covered on the lower side with the black smut contracted over the fire. It was found among ashes, and large pieces of charcoal. In the large cemetery of Augusta, were found four iron bracelets on the left arm of a female skeleton. They are formed with a loop at one extremity, and extend in an oval shape to a knot at the other end, with hitches into the loop. The elongated central part of the oval is the thickest, from which it gradually tapers to the clasp. These bracelets