CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 189 
inches in diameter, made from а portion of a pottery vessel. 
these objects, though presumably they had been present. 
No bones were with 
Apart from human remains was a discoidal stone about an inch in diameter, 
probably of tufa, of a type of which we found a number at Moundville, and else- 
where, namely, with the base somewhat larger than the upper surface, giving the 
stone the appearance of a much truncated cone. Somewhat later a discoidal of 
amphibolite was met with, of the same type but a trifle larger. This stone had in 
Ес. 87.— Vessel No. 3. Mound F. (Height 6.2 inches.) 
the middle of each of its flat surfaces a hole drilled so deeply that the two nearly 
met. Тһе day «succeeding the finding of this stone, while digging trial-holes in a 
field immediately north of Mound H, we came upon a beautiful discoidal stone 
having, at first glance, the appearance of hematite, but being in reality limonite 
that had undergone change to hematite on the surface only. This discoidal, 1.5 
inch in diameter, was drilled completely through. With the discoidal stone found 
in Mound F was a carefully rounded dise of pottery, seemingly made from a frag- 
