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Mowunp 19.—This has been plowed over so often that the top is 
rounded, giving it a dome shape. It was flat-topped when built. It 
is somewhat diamond-shaped in outline, the two axes measuring 150 
feet north and south by 135 feet east and west. The present elevation 
is 7 feet. 
Mounp 20.—This mound is practically square, the sides measuring 
100 feet each. The level area on the top is 7 feet above the base. 
The slopes from top to bottom are not uniform on the north and 
south sides, so that on those sides the margins of the top are not 
parallel with the margins of the base. 
. LODGE SITES 
By the term “lodge site” is meant a small embankment, usually 
circular or nearly so, though sometimes rectangular, perhaps square, 
with a break or passageway at some point in the wall. Each marks 
the site of a dwelling for a single family; of a communal house 
which serves as a home for several families; of a council house; of 
an edifice for the performance of religious rites or ceremonies; or of 
any other sort of building of a somewhat permanent nature which 
might be needed or desired. Usually the embankment is formed by 
excavating a trench to a depth varying with the purpose for which 
it is intended and piling the earth around the margin. It may form 
a reinforcement for posts or palisades, which make the walls: or it 
may be piled against the bottom of a slighter structure as a protec- 
tion against wind or surface water from heavy rainfall. 
With the Marksville mound group there are eight of these lodge 
sites. The three measurements given with each in the following 
notes refer, first, to the height of the wall; secondly, to the width of 
the wall at its base; thirdly, the measure across the center from top 
to top of the wall. All measures are given to the nearest foot. 
No. 1—This is close to the river bluff, within Inclosure A, less 
than 100 feet from the southern end of the wall. It has been 
plowed until its outline is uncertain, but it seems a little longer 
from east to west than from north to south. The opening, or 
entrance, is toward the stream. Its dimensions are 21% ; 20; 45 by 50. 
No. 2.—This is 200 feet north from the north end of Inclosure 
A. At first glance the wall seems to be heavier and the central 
depression deeper than is the case with the other sites; but this 
appearance is due to its smaller diameter. The present bottom, 
at the center, is 3 feet lower than the top of the wall; but owing 
to the filling of the former and erosion of the latter, the original 
difference of level was at least 4 feet, perhaps more. There is now 
less than 20 feet of space between the wall and the river bluff. 
