CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 221 
In the mound also were flat fire- places, one at least having clay hardened like 
brick from continued heat. 
A pot-shaped deposit, 8 inches in diameter, 6 inches deep, beginning 2 feet from 
the surface, seemingly composed of slips of charred cane, was found aw av from 
human remains. 
Also apart from human bones was a deposit of charred woven material and 
charcoal. 
Remains of the deer were scattered throughout the mound. In one place were 
bones of what must have been a large part of the carcass of one. 
Throughout the mound was the usual midden refuse and other objects, including 
bits of mica, a number of rough discoidal stones, hammer-stones, pebbles, hones, 
pitted stones, and a great number of fragments of polished “ celts.” These frag- 
ments, which had been broken by use and not in process of manufacture, as the 
high polish on parts of them show, number from forty to fifty. They were present 
in all parts of the mound and were found with burials twice— probably an accidental 
association. This great number of fragments of “celts” in a mound or dwelling- 
site is new in our experience. 
But one unbroken “celt” was met with—a neatly made hatchet of volcanic 
rock, 4 inches long, lying apart from any burial. 
Also in the mound were two fragments of scalloped stone discs. 
Throughout all the digging of this low mound but one arrowhead was met 
with—a small projectile point of red jasper. This fact emphasizes the marked 
scarcity of arrowheads noted by us during our digging, and throughout our surface 
surveys, at Moundville. 
In all the digging in this low ridge but one fragment of quartzite was found, 
so far as our observation went. Abundance of this material, however, lay on the 
surface of the field north of Mound D. 
Part of an interesting pipe, probably of stone belonging to the amphibole group, 
with the head of a turtle projecting 
from the bowl, lay alone in the soil 
(Fig. 141). Similar protruding heads 
of turtles are found on vessels of earth- 
enware along the northwestern Florida 
coast. 
Two small, flat slabs of hematite, 
each with several facets as if produced 
by rubbing, were found separately. 
Throughout the mound were frag- 
ments of very large vessels, of coarse 
shell-tempered ware, evidently belong- 
. . ee. И > — Ғіс. 141.— Part of stone pipe with head ші EUM 
ing to cooking utensils, many with Risse ef Nolan стене 
loop-handles, calling to mind the great 
vessels found by us along the Alabama river where, however, they had been 
utilized for urn-burials. 
