THE WEBB GROUP. 



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Several of these, mncb shatteied by the earthquake, were exainiued 

 and others iinii)jured were opened. All were formed of irregular layers 

 of swamp muck on which were fiie-beds, charcoal, ashes, fragments of 

 pottery, and charred animal bones, as is usual in tliis region. 



In a conical numnd on the ridge, at the depth of 3 feet from the top, 

 was the skeleton of a child not more than ."? feet long, and by the side 

 of the skull a dark scallop-rinuned basin, and close to it another vessel, 

 light colored. At the bottom, on tiie natural surface of the ground, was 

 a tire-bed. The main body of the mound was composed of gray loam, 

 such as tliat of the soil around it, but the to|) was covered with a layer 

 of soft, yellow sand, 20 inches thick at tlic center, and thinning oat 

 each way. 



A small circular mound, 'S> tcct in diameter and 7 feet high, found on 

 Cane island in St. Francis lake, was explored. This had a rather mod- 





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FHi. 111. — Webb ;;roiii», Craigiieiid county, Arkansas. 



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ern appearance and had evidently been built up :i.t intervals. Passing 

 through a top stratum of gray, sandy soil, something over a foot thick, 

 the explorer reached a layer of charcoal and ashes about inches thick, 

 covering an area of about feet in diameter, in which were the charred 

 fragments of animal bones. Next below this was a layei", 2 feet thick, 

 of sand so loose as to shovel like ashes. This lay on a tire-bed of similar 

 size, and at least a foot in depth of charcoal, in which were decayed 

 firebrands. This was, in fact, a coali)it in which were several bushels 

 of excellent charcoal, but little ashes and no bones. About a foot or 

 so beloAv this was another similar charcoal bed. Not a particle of clay, 

 mud, or a piece of stone or pottery was seen in any part of the mound. 

 The group shown In Fig. Ill is situated in the southern part of the 

 county, on Sec. IG, T. 13 N., E. 5 E., on the land of Mr. Jasper Webb, 

 about 10 miles southeast of Jonesboro. 



