ok so i worked over ten hours straight so im thankful todays post is relatively short. Here goes.... In 1972, an early settler, General John Payne, made a horrifying discovery while building his house in the Bracken County town of Augusta, just fifty-three miles southwest of the Great Serpent Mound, not far from the Ohio-Kentucky border. From Historical Sketches of Kentucky by Lewis Collins, Maysville, 1847, page 205: The bottom on which Augusta is situated is a large burying ground of the ancients... They have been found in great numbers, and of all sizes, everywhere between the mouths of Bracken and Locust Creeks, a distance of about a mile and a half. From the cellar under my (Paynes) dwelling, 60 by 70 feet, over a hundred and ten skeletons were taken. I measured them by skulls, and there might have been more, whose skulls had crumbled into dust...The skeletons were of all sizes, from seven feet to infant. David Kilgour (who was a tall and very large man) passed our village at the time I was excavating my cellar, and we took him down and applied a thigh bone to his. The man, If well-proportioned, must have been 10 to 12 inches taller than Kilgour, and the lower jaw bone would slip on over his, skin and all. Who were they? How come their bones were here? When I was in the army, I inquired of old Crane, a Wyandot and of Anglerson, a Deleware, both intelligent old chiefs, and they could give me no information in reference to these remains of antiquity. Some of the largest trees of the forest were growing over the remains when the land was cleared in 1792. After this, the skulls disappear from history, and another strange chapter in Kentuckys ancient past comes to an inconclusive close. To whom did the skulls belong? Why were some so large? We may never know.
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:12:08 +0000
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