THE MILLEK MOUNDS. 



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were several whole eartheu vessels and numerous friigiiieiits of pottery 

 This is the only one of the group examined in which neither charcoal 

 nor ashes were found. 



j^o. 5 is JrO yards southwest of Xo. 3, diameter 20 feet, height 2 feet. 



No. 6 is 70 yards west of Xo. ^, diameter 40 feet, height 3 feet. About 

 2 inches of the top consisted of vegetable soil. Under this was a 

 layer of burnt clay extending across the mouud, but not reaching the 



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Fig'. 118. — Miide of lathili'; Iion^cs by MiuukI Imihlcrs. 



margins. This was not in a compact layer, but consisted of broken 

 fragments bearing the imprint of grass and twigs and in some places 

 the casts of split cane. In most cases the smooth side wns down. The 

 layer conformed to the surface of the ground and not to the curve of the 

 mound, and in the (lentral portion was 

 slightly depressed. Below this, as far as 

 the excavation extended (water stopping 

 the work) was dark muck. Immediately 

 below the burnt clay were four small ash 

 beds on the same level. On and immedi- 

 ately below the large layer of burnt clay 

 were several whole earthern vessels, two 

 water bottles, two pots, aiul three bowls, 

 and in the clay bed a large number of frag- 

 ments of pottery. • " 



No. 7, 100 yards west of No. 2, stands on 

 low, wet ground with water all around it; 

 diameter 60 feet, height 5 feet. After pass- 

 ing through a top layer of vegetable )nold 

 some 2 or 3 inches thick an unusually heavy 

 layer of burnt clay, some 15 feet in diame- 

 ter, was reached, which, in the center, 

 measured 18 inches thick, bnt thinning out 

 toward the margin, where it consisted of 

 scattering fragments. The middle portion 

 of the underside curved slightly upward, where it pressed nixm a layer 

 of ashes immediately 1)elow it. This layer of clay had the ai)pcarance 

 of having been made by laying down irregularly siiaped chunks of burnt 



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. 119 —The Miller tinmiids, 

 sottroimty. Arkansas. 



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