200 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
eastern side to beyond the center of the summit plateau. This trench, 8 feet wide 
at the top, expanded at the end to a circular hole about 13 feet in diameter. Both 
trench and hole were comparatively shallow, the depth being perhaps from 3 to 4 
feet. 
The mound, 11 feet 9 inches high from the east and 16 feet 7 inches high from 
the south, has its longer sides extending almost due north and south. The plateau 
is about 33 feet by 53 feet in extent. 
Nine trial-holes almost at once resulted in the discovery of human remains in 
two places, and of artifacts in the extreme northeastern part of the mound at a con- 
siderable distance from these burials. 
As the plateau seemed to have been extensively used for burial, it was com- 
pletely dug through by us to a minimum depth of from 4 to 5 feet. 
Burial No. 1.—This burial lay beneath artifacts discovered by means of one of 
our trial-holes. Nine inches from the surface was a disc of sedimentary rock, 12.5 
inches in diameter (Fig. 107). Around its upper surface, which is somewhat con- 
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Fic. 107.—Stone dise. Mound O. (One-quarter size.) 
cave, are two parallel, encircling lines, rather roughly incised. From the lower sur- 
face projects a circular core, the diameter of which is about 2 inches less than that 
of the upper part. a 
Nine inches below the slab, was a skull, with a left clavicle, a left humerus, 
and a few cervical vertebre. The skull rested on part of the upper surface of a 
dise of fine-grained gneiss, 9 inches in diameter, having nineteen notches on the 
margin and two encircling, incised lines on one side. Оп one surface of the disc are 
traces of cream-colored paint; on the other surface is much red pigment. Resting 
on the dise, near the skull, lay an ear-plug of wood, copper-coated, 1.5 inch in 
