Name/Title
ARTIFACTS - AFOsEntry/Object ID
1999.27.2159Description
1 BAG OF 74/FILL NORTH MOUND AT AVONDALE/SHIPPEE #2059/VARIOUS SIZES
Includes various artifacts, two smaller bags, and one bag of charcoal. Several notes are included.
One note a list of artifacts
One reads:
Soil sample from 23CL23 are in closet, also red ochre stained soil from burial. Fall 1950 long bones on closet shelf from power shovel crew also I think a skull. 3 skulls in basement. Large box on shelf with material from both mounds in years 1934-1950.
One reads: artifacts #2059 dug from remains of fill of North Mound at Avondale and also beneath the mound. By Harry Trowbridge and J.M Shippee on April 20, 1946.
One small bag that contains pottery sherds has a note on the outside that reads:
Avondale Mounds
Exact location doubtful. Probably obtained from McWade (who helped Player and the West boys wreck the north mound and who dug one day with me in 1935 in the south mound. These were stored under my back porch with the double bundle burial in the wire screen. The burial are still there. Jan 15, 1954.
The other smaller bag contains rock/ash/soil and includes a note that reads:
This is the (fired?) earth described as being part of the cremation basin reported from the North Mound in 1935. See my report and Wedel's 1943Collection
Shippee Archaeological CollectionRelationships
Related Places
Place
Location
23 CL 23County
Clay CountyState/Province
Missouri