958 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER ТОМВІСВЕЕ RIVER. 
Although the mound when measured by us showed a height of about 5.5 feet, 
yet, being on a slope, it is possible that a greater height was accorded by us than it 
was entitled to, At all events, what seemed to be a base-line ran through the 
mound, and this base-line was not more than 4 feet from the surface in the higher 
parts of the mound. A few feet west of the center of the base, beginning at the 
base and extending downward 3 feet, was a pit of irregular outline, having an 
average diameter of about 6 feet. At the margin of this pit were two skulls, 
together. In the upper part of the pit was much clay, and below the clay was black 
material, probably sand darkened by admixture of organic matter. In this black 
material were scattered a few small masses of ferruginous sandstone and a part of 
the base of an earthenware vessel, having one foot and a remnant of another. No 
human remains were encountered below the margin of this curious pit. 
MOUND NEAR GAINES’ LANDING, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
About one-half mile by water up West Bassett Creek, on the right-hand side 
going up stream, on property belonging to Mr. Henry L. Gaines, of Mobile, Alabama, 
is a field lately used for the raising of cotton. In this field, which has been long 
under cultivation, was a slight rising of the ground, marking where a mound had 
been almost ploughed away. On the surface were scattered human bones. А cir- 
cular area 30 feet in diameter was marked out by us and dug away to a depth of 
about 2.5 feet. The material was clay with a slight admixture of sand. 
In several parts of the mound, just below the surface, were scattered human 
bones where burials had been disturbed during cultivation of the field. Slightly 
deeper was a large mass of long-bones, parallel with one another. At one end where 
the mass diminished somewhat in thickness, three skulls, in fragments when found 
by us, had been placed. 
Immediately below the surface were the remains of three urn-burials, consisting 
of the lower parts of coarse, undecorated, shell-tempered bowls, in fragments but 
held together by the surrounding clay. Each of these bowls, from which, pre- 
sumably, the rims had been ploughed away, contained human bones, and one had, 
in addition, several large fragments of a good-sized vessel of excellent ware, shell- 
tempered in places and bearing incised decoration, probably belonging to a sur- 
mounting vessel. 
A stone, pitted on each side, lay alone in the clay. 
MOUND NEAR BonLAw's Woopyarp, WASHINGTON COUNTY. 
This mound, about half a mile in a westerly direction from the landing, is about 
5 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter, approximately. We were unable to obtain 
permission to investigate it. 
MOUNDS NEAR JACKSON, CLARKE COUNTY. 
About one-quarter mile in a straight line east of the railroad station at Jackson, 
in pine woods, were two mounds, in sight one from another. The northerly mound, 
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