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The articles picked up hero from time to time and found in the pro- 

 cess of cultivating the soil belong both to the days of the first settle- 

 ment of the county and to very modern times. They are thimbles, 

 ]iipes, broken dishes, parts of pistols and guns, pieces of silver coin, 

 probably used as gun-sights, a Chinese coin, a toy pistol of stone, arti- . 

 cles of Indian origin, stone bullet molds, etc. The remains of an old 

 forge were uncovered here a few years ago. 



THE WYENN MOUNDS. 



This is a group of mounds situated on the bank of Mound lake, 16 

 miles from the present mouth of the Arkansas river. The large one is 

 18 feet high, oval in form, flat on top, and 130 feet long, exclusive of 

 the apron-like appendage at one end, which is 140 feet long, GO feet 

 wide, and 3 feet high. As this is used as a graveyard it could not be 

 explored nor was permission granted to examine the others which are 

 small and of the usual conical form. 



Fig. 146. — Roger'.s mound. Pbillipa county, Arkansas. 

 CHOCTAW MOUND. 



This is a small circular mound, 10 feet high and 40 feet in diameter, 

 situated at the junction of Choctaw bayou and Walnut lake. It was 

 found by excavation to consist of a top layer of sandy loam 1 foot thick 

 and the remainder, to the base, of hard tough clay. No charcoal, ashes, 

 or other evidences of occupancy or use, save a few fragments of pottery, 

 were discovered in it. 



Near this point there are evidences of two ancient trails running in 

 different directions. 



DREW COUNTY. 

 THE TAYLOR MOUNDS. 



This interesting group is located on the land of Dr. J. M. Taylor, 4 

 miles west of Winchester railroad station. A view showing the larger 

 portion of the group is given in Fig. 149. It consists of several com- 

 paratively large nuiunds, of the usual conical form, several small 

 mounds, and numerous slight elevations which are supi>osed to be 

 house sites. There is one large mound, with flat top and terrace, not 

 shown in the figure, which is 30 feet high. The others range from 5 to 

 14 feet in height. 



Along the left margin of the field, not shown in the figure, is a row 

 of what are believed to be artifical ponds made by removing the dirt 

 for the mounds. 



