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A Chanco for the Curiam*.Wo loam from Mr. TiiOM.ii P. Cm., that recently, while ploughing in a field of hit» father’s ; farm, he turned a human skull out from a mound, j The mound was about twenty feet In diameter and six led iu hoight After discovering the skull Mr. I'iii/s curiosity 1yd him to starch the rnvnmd for further curiosities, and it was not long till lie hod exhumed six Additional skulls, some very large and other* not more than three inches in diameter, lie, also, found a stone tomahawk, a flint dart, tome eight inches in length, and a small piece of iron about three Inches in length. The iron was runt-eatou till it was very thin. When Mr. I'iil'b father, Geo nor, I'iil, first cnmo to this county, some forty years ugo, an onk tree was elanding on thie muuud which boro marks of age and decny. It was three feet six inches in dhune-ter, ami in Alt j of the branches mid much of the bark had fallen off. The curious can calculate4»n the age of the tree, and from whence came the Iron.
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Holmes County Farmer
Millersburg, Ohio, US
Thu, May 09, 1861
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Stark L.
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