Name/Title
Excavation BoxEntry/Object ID
1999.27.2211Description
Box of excavation material from 23CL23 site. Box contains individual bags.
Bag 1:
SCORING
N65 E80
23CL23
Dug up big red ochre burial but not sacked May 1951
Bag 2:
Supine burial
23CL23
Burial from N55 E90 N55 E85
May 20, 1951
Depth of red soil. 34"
#4
Bag 3:
N55 E85
Skull burial in red ochre 6" pit
Below the extended one
Dean and Mrs. Millard
Bag 4:
RFG Blade
#22
N55 E85
Depth 6" in NW corner
May 20, 1951
Area of red burials
Bag 5:
Sq N55 E85
May 20, 1951
Depth: 17
Beneath tombstone which was 8" deep at west top end and 12" deep at east top end. Where stone is 4" thick, 4 " wide, stone is 16" long.
Bag 6:
Worked hematite
2' N and 1' of N55 E85
#21
Sq N55 E85
Depth 12" or likely very close to surface of area at time of burial and is at level of tombstone
May 20, 1951
Area of red burials
Bag 7:
Resharpened chip or dulled
N55 E85
Depths 9" or level of toppled stone at N of square
May 20, 1951
Area of red burials
Bag 8:
Burial's galena
May 1951
N55 E85
Large piece was just to the north as the 2 lay just east of the chin (determined by the position of decayed teeth)
Burial oriented head west feet east
Buried supine extended and in N55 E90
Bag 9:
Point
N55 E85
Depth 18" at center of square or in colored soil of burial
May 20, 1951
Bag 10:
Sq N50 E90
Depth 19" or 6" below very red area of burial in which all bones are gone.
June 3, 1951
Bag 11:
Celt
Area of red burial
May 13, 1951
Depth 28"
Sq N60 E85
#13
Bag 12:
Gorget fragment and 5 worked chert fragments
Area of red burial
N60E85
Depth 17" to 19"
Bag 13:
Scraper and knife frag.
May 5, 1951
N60 E85
Depth 10" to 16"
Area of red burials
Bag 14:
Hammer
#14
N60 E85
Depth 24"
May 19, 1951
N60E85
Area of red burials
Bag 15 :
Sq N60 E80
Depth 21"
Mrs. Hamilton
June 3
In area of red burials
Bag 16:
N60 E90
Found beneath skull from this square
June 3, 1951 by Marshall people
Lithics and bone fragments
Bag 17:
Knife #5
Sq N65 E90
Depth: 36" below SW stake at N65 E85
In area of red burial
Bag 18:
One burial above this one (6")
Burial in N60 E90
Skull by big stone. Burned to lime where depth from surface 34"
Bag 19:
N55 E90
#10
45" north 8" west of N55 E90
Depth 34" below N60 E90
Large point
Metcalf
Area of red burials
Bag 20:
May 5, 1951
Hematite Disc, small blade, point frag, chip scraper
Sw N55 E90
Depth 22" below stake N60 E85
Point from NW corner of square. Knife in west central edge.
Metcalf
Area of red burial
Bag 21:
#41
Stone ball
June 10, 1951
Sq N55 E100
Depth 25" to wall
2 chips at 12", 12 chips at 18" to 22" (these are not in this bag)
In area of red burial
Bag 22:
Point
#36
N55 E95
8" east of red burial area
8" east and 7"south of stake N55 E90
Depth 17" outside red area
6/3/51
Just outside area of red burialsCollection
Shippee Archaeological CollectionRelationships
Related Places
Place
Location
23 CL 23County
Clay CountyState/Province
Missouri