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stone have been found, as well as mortars, pitted stones, and other 
articles common to village sites. Mr. Freeman has also unearthed a 
few skeletons when plowing deeper than customary; the bones are 
well preserved. In the scapula of one body was a round hole, ap- 
parently made by a bullet. Freeman has found many bullets on this 
field, some “round,” others “long.” The latter may belong to the 
Civil War period. There are no mounds on the north side of the 
lick, so the remains found in this vicinity may pertain to different 
peoples or different periods. No burial mound was found, nor was 
there any report of what might be one. 
Vicinity or ALEXANDRIA 
No house mounds were observed on the south side of Red River in 
this vicinity, but examination on this side was almost entirely con- 
fined to the alluvial lands subject to occasional overflow in search of 
possible burial mounds. Only two of these could be located. They 
are 14 miles south of Alexandria, on the right bank of Bayou Boeuf, 
one-fourth of a mile from the stream. One of them, on the farm 
of Mrs. Henry Rougeau, is § feet high and 75 feet across. It is at 
the edge of the higher ground, on a projecting knoll or ridge whose 
base is reached by flood water. Some digging has been done in the 
upper portion and a small hole carried to the bottom at the center. 
At a depth of 4 feet six vases were found, standing close together ; 
they are in perfect condition, with rounded bodies and large upright 
necks; each would hold about a quart. With them was a small pot. 
half a pint in capacity, of triangular outline, with flat bottom, 
rounded corners, and a round opening 2 inches across in the top. 
There were also two pipes—one small, a rude effigy of some mammal, 
the other apparently intended to represent a bird’s head, the beak 
being well carved. All the pots had plain, straight-line decoration, 
many of the lines meeting at almost a right angle. Nothing was 
found in the shght digging below this level. 
The other mound, of about the same size, is only a few rods away, 
on the same little elevation, on the land of John Woodward. <A barn 
stood on its top, and the surface was consequently much worn by stock 
trampling over it. Bones, soft and decayed, lay almost at the sur- 
face. No deep excavations have been made; but Woodward has 
found abundance of broken pottery within a foot or two of the top, 
and also a globular pot of less than a pint capacity, the entire outer 
surface ornately decorated with scrolls and reversed curves rather 
deeply impressed. Another small pot contained a quantity of minute 
blue glass beads. Woodward also found “a small brass, gourd- 
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