Show CURIOUS RELICS recent discovery ot an indian tomb con lauy e articles A discovery important to relic hunters has boon made says the chicago even ing journal at sandy hook in the eastern part conn it is the finding of several skeletons and a quantity of curious in bian relics which have lain undisturbed for more than two hundred years two woodcock hunters from morgan and thomas vodo while crossing a small rise of ground halt a milo above tho rubber mills found an earthen jar tho top of which was exposed on account of tho lecont heavy rains taylor has a dog which is crazy to hunt woodchucks and iio set the animal to digging by tho side of tho jar morgan turned to and assisted and it took halt an hour for the two men and the dog to unearth the curious jar it was a mammoth vessel and stood nearly three feet high the sides were decorated in a rough way with tho clay of a different color from the jar itself it solf which was a dark htone brown age had weakened tho vessel and tho contents caused so great a pressure that in a few moments if foil apart and exposed the entire Aku leton of an adult in a sitting posture with the head bent over and resting between iho knees when the jar tumbled apart tho dry gravel also fell away and left the bones almost entirely free from dirt although the skeleton was perfect with the exception of the small bones which had crumbled away the skull and were too frail to bear handling and broke when taken in the hand the skull was undoubtedly that of an indian woman iho had been buried with honors in tho burial um were several scone implements and a quantity of shell brids which had probably been strung together under the pot was a peck or more of clam shells and arrow heads all of which had been baked arrow points were always rendered useless by baking before being the dead to prevent i tho graves being opened for plunder mr morgan suggested that further investigation vesti gation be made and the earth was dug away for quite a distance half a dozen axes unearthed an finally fo four more skeletons were found cheso were not buried in urns but rested in the same sitting posture and the excavations which had been made for the bodies were partly filled with burned shells and arrow heads |