NO. 14 CADDO BURIAL SITE WALKER 13 



States that the bottom consists of a layer of hard dark brown clay 4 

 feet thick. Resting on this stratum and embedded in red sandy clay 

 were several skeletons, near the heads of which were some pottery 

 vessels. Most of these burials had been disturbed by the previous 

 diggers, and in consequence much of the associated pottery had been 

 destroyed. Only one additional burial was found by Beyer, from 

 which came, presumably, the bottle figured by him in his report." The 

 layer of red clay enclosing the bodies was 18 inches thick, and above 

 it was an ash bed, in which some of the wood had been reduced only 

 to charcoal. Over this was another 10 inches of red clay overlain by 

 still another ash bed. There was very little charcoal in this upper 

 bed. The topmost layer was again red sandy clay, which covered the 

 entire mound, clearly outlined by a black line formed by the decaying 

 vegetation which had been growing on the surface when it had been 

 enclosed in the levee. 



The finding of a vessel of this type in a mound is interesting be- 

 cause neither the specimens from Natchitoches nor those from the 

 Ouachita were found in mounds, yet Campti is only a few miles up 

 Red River from the first-mentioned site. It would appear, from the 

 description given of the mound at Campti, that none of the burials in 

 it were intrusive, but positive evidence on this point is lacking because 

 of the previous disturbance of its contents and because of the fact 

 that fully two-thirds of it had caved into the river. 



Another instance of the same kind of pottery from Red River 

 Valley is furnished by Jones, who figures two bottles of the Glendora 

 type from a reported burial ground near Shreveport. One of them is 

 a bottle with the characteristic short, bulging neck and squat, sub- 

 globular body decorated with scroll designs ; the other looks from the 

 illustration as if the bulge on the neck had been present but had been 

 broken off, probably at the time of its discovery.^' 



Moore has found it again farther up Red River at the Battle Place 

 in Arkansas. Here many of the bowls and bottles found bear the 

 typical engraved scroll and spot design, and the bottles likewise have 

 the characteristic Glendora shape, which Moore says represents a 

 conventionalized cup placed on the neck of a bottle." 



The northernmost distribution of this type of pottery seems to be 

 along the Arkansas River in the vicinity of Pine Bluff, Ark. Moore 



"Beyer, G. E., The mounds of Louisiana, II. Louisiana Hist. Soc. Publ., vol. 

 2, no. I, pi. 10, 1897. 



"Jones, C. C, Antiquities of the southern Indians, pi. 28, figs. 3, 4, 1873. 



" Moore, C. B., Some aboriginal sites on Red River. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 14, no. 4, p. 569, 1912. 



