244 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, BLACK WARRIOR RIVER. 
CEMETERY BELOW FOSTERS Ferry LANpBRIDGE, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 
Reports are current that human bones have been found at this place in the cul- 
tivation of the fields, and that vessels of earthenware have been laid bare by 
freshets. Certain vessels in the Museum of the University of Alabama, near Tus- 
caloosa, are marked as having come from Foster's Ferry, but we are informed by Mr. 
Anderson, who is greatly interested in archeology, that the vessels were obtained 
long ago and that data as to the exact locality whence they came are wanting. Con- 
siderable digging was done by us at this place, in spots pointed out by residents as 
having furnished evidence in the past of being places of burial, but neither bones 
nor artifacts were met with by us. Presumably former graves had been ploughed 
through or washed away by freshets. There is а remnant of a mound on the river 
bank. 
CEMETERY ABOVE FosrER's FERRY LANpBRIDGE, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. 
A short distance above the landbridge, on the eastern side of the river, is a 
plantation where, it is said, aboriginal ware has been found and where our agent, 
when locating mounds, saw much broken pottery оп the surface. We were not per- 
mitted to dig here, the owner fearing ill effect from loosened ground at the coming 
of another freshet. 
There are other localities along the Black Warrior river below Tuscaloosa, 
where the finding of aboriginal earthenware has been reported, but permission to 
dig was not forthcoming, the owners fearing injury to the property in flood-time. 
The reader will note that along the Black Warrior river, between its junction 
with the Tombigbee, and Tuscaloosa, no burial mound was met with by us. All 
aboriginal interments were in graves. The occasional use of the summit plateau of 
a domiciliary mound as a cemetery by the aborigines, forms no exception to this 
rule. 
