248 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
The mound, which resembles a natural ridge and probably was an elevation made 
by wash of water in flood-time, to which, perhaps, an amount of sandy clay had 
been added at one end by the aborigines, is in the swamp about one hundred yards 
in a southeasterly direction from the landing. No measurements were taken, as we 
found it impossible to distinguish between the artificial and the natural, but 2 feet 
closely approximates the maximum height. As this mound serves as a refuge for 
cattle during high water, it was not completely leveled, though a large part of it 
was dug through. 
ненә inches down was a skull in fragments, like all others found in the 
mound. Near it were two bits of bone. 
Beginning one foot from the surface was a layer of bones, of irregular outline, 
20 inches by 30 inches in maximum diameters, including four skulls, one belonging 
to a child. The average thickness of this layer was somewhat less than that of the 
skulls it contained. 
Near the deposit just described was a bunched burial, including one skull. 
Fragments of a long-bone lay about 8 inches below the surface. 
Six inches down was the lower part of a bowl of inferior ware, in fragments, 
resting on its base. This remaining part had a depth of eight inches. On the 
bottom lay an astragalus of an adult. Above this bone was a pile of fragments rep- 
resenting part of another vessel. Presumably the ground had been under cultivation 
in Famer times, and all these fragments were remains of an enclosing bowl and its 
surmounting, inverted vessel. In all probability most of the bones included in this 
urn-burial had been carried away by the plough which broke the vessels. 
In another part of the mound was the base of a large bowl, probably all that 
remained of an urn-burial. 
Ten inches from the surface was a flat mass of hematite, about the size of a 
fist, in a small pocket of charcoal. Several nails and one е of iron lay together 
apart from the interments. 
With the smaller bunched burial, to which reference has been made, were glass 
beads. With the larger burials were glass beads; four beads of sheet-copper or 
sheet-brass, corroded through and through; an object of glass resembling the stem 
of a wine-glass with the base broken away; and four Romanist medals of saints, 
certain of which had been wrapped in matting, parts of which remained. Three 
of these medals had “eyes,” or small, circular attachments for suspension. The 
“еуе” belonging to the fourth medal, broken off, had been substituted by a small 
hole. The unappreciative savage, however, had placed this hole at the lower side 
of the medal, so that the saints hung upside down when the medal was suspended. 
MOUNDS NEAR THREE Rivers LANDING, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
These mounds, four in number, in sight one of another, on property of Mr. 
James B. Slade, of Slade’s, Alabama, are about two hundred yards in a SSW. 
direction from the landing. It is said positively that these mounds, in common with 
the surrounding territory, have been under cultivation in the past, a report borne 
out by their extended appearance. 
