30 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 193 



Trench 5, a 7X3 meters cut, was laid out on a north-south axis 

 and carried down to the sterile clay rock of the mound base in all 

 except the center section of the trench where it was continued into 

 the clay rock for a total depth of 1.25 meters. 



MOUND V; TRENCH 6 



This is a small mound relatively close to the plateau edge about 

 1.4 meters in maximum height buUt over a slight depression in the 

 plateau. Trench 6, an 8X2 meters cut laid out along the long axis 

 of the mound (east-west), revealed the mound to be primarily of un- 

 stratified yellow clay fill with an intrusion of gray fill at the east end. 

 Both fill areas contained a few sherds. The only find was a large 

 stone ax (Find 219) from the center of the mound at a 20-cm. depth. 



Material from this mound, present at Peabody Museum, consisted 

 of 16 sherds from the top level of the mound. 



MOUND VI ; TRENCH 11 



Mound VI is a small roughly circular mound, about 15 meters in 

 diameter and 1.5-2 meters deep. Trench 11, a 15X2 meters cut, 

 was laid out on the eastern slope of a north-south axis. Field obser- 

 vation suggests that the horizontally banded layers in the upper fill 

 may be either occupational or purposeful fill, whUe the relative lack 

 of sherds in the light layer below point more definitely to purposeful 

 fill. The dirty brown and gray layer below this appeared to be the 

 old weathered surface with refuse intrustion. No finds are reported 

 from the mound nor were any features of significance noted other than 

 a few lumps of red fired clay, one with white paint, which were pres- 

 ent in the first and second levels. 



MOUND VII ; TRENCH 7 



Although this is not a large mound, roughly 17X18 meters, exca- 

 vation was carried down to a considerable depth, almost 5 meters, 

 and the mound yielded a wealth of burials and find units of more than 

 one vessel. Trench 7, a 10X3 meters cut, was laid out on a north- 

 south axis. Field comments are scanty, but fragments of burned 

 floors and scattered pieces of human long bones were reported from 

 60-100 cm. Level 1 (0-150 cm.), and the sherd analysis revealed 

 that Level 2 (150-200 cm.) contained clay lumps or plaster fragments 

 as well as considerable amounts of burned pottery. As may be seen 

 from the profile, a series of ash deposits along with the line of demar- 

 cation between the upper layer of mottled-brown fill and the lower 

 layer of light-brown fill runs roughly along the junction of Levels 1 

 and 2 and up into the lower portion of Level 1, thus corresponding 

 generally to the burned plaster and pottery distribution suggested 



