FOWKE] MOUNDS IN ALABAMA 463 
The stratification of this mound was so unusual in its slopes and 
curvatures as to make it almost a certainty that it was of three 
different ages or periods of construction. There was a small mound, 
of which the grave at the south side, containing the eight skeletons, 
was the center. This held a large number of bodies. There was 
another burial place to the northwest of this, similarly piled up but 
without any distinctive central feature; the margins of these two 
coalesced or overlapped. Which of these two may have been con- 
structed first could not be learned. Later, the three burials noted as 
in the graves near the center were made at the junction of the two 
little mounds, on their north side. Earth was piled over these and 
over successive burials above them and extended on every side until 
the result was the apparently single, simple conical mound as it 
stood before the excavation began. 
In Plates 85 to 91, inclusive, are to be seen such skulls as could be 
partially restored, along with jaws and teeth that show effects of 
disease and wear. They are from the Shell Heap, the Hog Island 
Mound, and the Alexander Mound. 
The similarity of burial methods and of the material discovered in 
the Hog Island and the Alexander mounds indicate that they are 
due to the same tribe and period. The shell heap seems to be the 
work of an unrelated people. The relics found on some village sites 
in the two counties denote that the dwellers supported themselves 
principally by agriculture. The remains at other village sites seem 
due to a people whose chief support was from the chase. When all 
the facts are considered, it seems clear that this region has been 
occupied by at least two different “ nations.” 
Oruer Mounps 1x Coitpert aND LawreNCcE CouNTIES 
At Oakville, 8 miles southeast of Moulton, rectangular flat-top 
mound, 18 to 20 feet high, about 200 feet across at base. 
Close by, a small mound plowed nearly level. 
A fourth of a mile north, conical mound 11 feet high, 75 feet 
across. Modern cemetery. 
Small mound cn west side of Oakville Lake; also one on east 
side. 
Mound 6 feet high, 50 feet across, on Buck Kitchen farm, 2 miles 
southeast of flat mound. Modern cemetery. 
Two small mounds 6 feet high on Pullen farm, on bank of Town 
Creek, near Iron Bridge. 
Du Bose mound, 2 miles south of Courtland, 15 feet high. Much 
dug, but center apparently intact. 
