THOMAS. I 



TAYLOR SHANTY GROUP. 



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No. 4, 25 feet across the widest poiut ami 2 feet liij^li. 



No. 5, apparently double, 75 feet loug north and sonth, .15 feet across 

 at the widest point, ami 3 feet high. 



^o. 6, 50 feet long east and west, 30 feet wide, and 2 feet higii. 



No. 7, which is but 20 feet iu diameter and 2 feet high, was opened 

 and found to consist throughout of sandy soil like that in the field 

 around it. It was full of ashes, charcoal, burned clay, broken mussel 

 shells, fragments of pottery, and stone chips. A soft, folded skeleton, 

 with head north, was found on the northern side at the depth of 18 

 inches; under it was a diseoidal 

 stone. A few large fragmeuts 

 of pottery, very soft, were at the 

 center near the surface. The 

 clay pipe heretofore mentioned 

 was found on the surface of this 

 mound. 



No. 8, diameter 35 feet and 

 height 2 feet, is situated in a 

 dejiression, and at the time of 

 examination was surrounded by 

 water. 



In No. 9, which, is 25 feet in 

 diameter and 3 feet high, was a 

 folded skeleton at the depth of 1 

 foot, with head south ; no relics 

 of any kind with it. 



THK TAYLOK SHANTY (iROUP. 



This group, shown in Fig. 125, 

 is situate<l in the southern part 

 of T. 11 N., R. G E., on the right 

 bank of the St. Francis river, 

 about 3 miles below where the 

 Kansas City, Fort Scott and 

 Memphis railroad crosses this 

 stream. This part of the county 

 lies within the bounds of what 

 are known as the " Sunken lands 

 of the St. Francis river;" hence fm!. i24.-Phit . 

 the present condition is proba- 

 bly (juite diflerent from what it was previous to 1811, though it must 

 have abounded in swamps.aud sloughs as far back as the time of De 

 Soto's visit. . The land on which the mounds stand is subject to over- 

 flow, and in 1882, 1883, and 1884 was inundated to the depth' of 10 or 

 12 feet, only the tops of the highest mounds remaining uncovered. 



Mound No. 1, shown on a larger scale in Fig. 1_2G, is at this time -but 



i>f Thnrnton group, Poinsett county, 



Arkiinsii-s. 



