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Harris mound, 3 miles north of Courtland, 11 feet high, 50 feet 
across. Has been tunneled and shafted, but apparently bottom was 
not reached. 
Gilchrist mound, 4 feet high, 20 feet across, 7 miles east of north 
from Courtland; in a large depression or sink hole. Artificial, but 
may not be aboriginal. 
Two small flat-top mounds, 4 feet high, 50 feet across, on river 
bank opposite lower end of Gilchrist Island. 
Small mound, with a barn on it, on Gilchrist Island. 
Large mound, about one-third shell, on Gilchrist Island. There 
is an immense amount of village-site débris on this island. 
Very large shell heap on Wheeler land, near Lock 2. 
Mound reported on Hampton farm, 3 miles east of Alexander’s. 
Village sites are numerous, especially along streams. 
ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS IN SCOTT COUNTY, ARK. 
A report came to the Bureau of American Ethnology that— 
In Scott County [Arkansas], about 2% miles northwest of the county site, 
Waldron, appears to have been an old Indian village of great extent. The 
ground for acres is strewn with stone implements of various forms and ma- 
terials. There is some broken earthenware mixed with shells. There are some 
mounds (low, 2 to 10 feet). There are wagonloads of stone mullers worked, 
principally rectangular or round; these are vast in number and varied in form; 
there are bones, some apparently implements or ornaments. Also many bits 
of crystal and glazed pottery. 
Such a site would offer a highly desirable field for investigation. 
The informant did not exaggerate in the least; the conditions are 
as he states them. But being unfamiliar with archeological evidences 
he did not interpret correctly. 
There are several places on Poteau Creek where Indian villages 
of considerable size existed; but they have been searched so often 
and to such good purpose that very little remains on the surface. 
Since the settlement of the region by whites floods are more frequent 
and much higher than formerly; some old sites are washed away 
and others are hidden by sediment. Sometimes a skeleton or a pot 
is struck by a plow; at once, in such cases, there is great haste on 
the part of collectors and curiosity hunters, many of whom have 
built up a good trade in such things, to dig up all that may be found. 
It is useless to search for burial places, as there are no surface indi- 
cations of them; only the plow or a freshet reveals what may be under 
the ground. 
There are, as stated, great numbers of mullefs, pestles, grinders, 
polishers, and flat mortars, but these are invariably the natural, water- 
worn forms of the stones, whether square, rectangular, or circular. 
