CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 953 
Thirteen inches from the surface was another bundle of parallel long-bones, 
consisting of seven humeri, six radii, six ulnæ, seven femurs, seven tibie, and four 
fibula. At one end of this pile were the bones of an infant. 
With its rim 8 inches below the surface, resting on its base, in which there is 
a mortuary perforation, was a bowl of inferior. shell-tempered ware, without decora- 
tion, except certain projections from the rim. Тһе maximum diameter of the vessel 
is 12.5 inches; its height, 8.5 inches. In the sand which filled this vessel was part 
of the skull of a young infant. Here we have an urn-burial without a covering 
vessel, for, presumably, had a plough struek an upper vessel, the rim of the one 
below would not have escaped injury. Immediately under this urn-burial was a 
bunched burial consisting of bones belonging to two adults. Probably the apposi- 
tion was accidental. 
The fourth and southernmost mound was the smallest of all. Eight holes, 
carried below the base, showed it to be of yellow sand. Тһе only object found was 
part of a human skull. 
MOUND NEAR PAYNE'S Woopyarp, CLARKE COUNTY. 
This little mound, circular in basal outline, about 200 yards WNW. from the 
landing, on property of Mr. Jefferson Bush, living nearby, had a height of 4 feet, 
and a diameter of 40 feet. It was completely dug down by us with the exception 
of parts around two trees. Тһе composition of this mound was interesting, it being 
one of the class found in this region and spoken of as “ rock-mounds " by the in- 
habitants. It was composed of sand with a small admixture of clay, and contained 
a great number of masses of ferruginous sandstone placed together in various parts. 
These masses were often of irregular shape, but sometimes were triangular, oblong, 
or roughly cireular, some no larger than the head of a child, others possibly seventy- 
five pounds in weight. 
Fra. 3.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Payne's Ете. 4.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound near Payne's Wood yard. 
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Woody (Diameter 3.25 inches iameter 6.5 inches.) 
