260 | CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
MOUND IN Кімвкіл/в FIELD, CLARKE COUNTY. 
Kimbell's field, long under cultivation, controlled by Mr. T. I. Kimbell, executor, 
of Jackson, is about 300 yards northwest of the Zimmerman sawmill at Jackson 
Landing. The mound, which had been much ploughed over, showed no sign of 
previous digging. Its height was 5 feet; the diameter of its circular base, 48 feet. 
It was completely dug away by us, its composition being a mixture of sand, clay, 
and gravel. 
Human remains were met with in forty-five places, the deepest being 3.5 feet 
from the surface. All bones were in the last stage of decay and crumbling to bits. 
The burials were as follows: 
Isolated skulls—25. 
Bunched burials, with a skull but without the full complement of the skeleton—8. 
Small bunched burial with two skulls—1. | 
Small bunched burial without 011—1. 
Skull and one long-bone—1.: 
Skull and two long-bones—1. 
А few long-bones together—1. 
A single long-bone or a fragment or fragments of опе—8. 
The remaining burial of the forty-five, 22 inches from the surface, consisted of 
a skull and certain long-bones. With these were charcoal and less than a handful 
of bits of caleined bone, the fragments too small to be positively identified as human, 
though probably they were. 
With a fragment of femur was a neat pebble-hammer. With an isolated skull 
was a mass of mica, roughly elliptical, 6 inches by 7 inches, with a central perfora- 
tion and a place nearby where another perforation had been unskilfully made or 
attempted and abandoned. 
Unassociated with human remains and found singly were the upper part of a 
sheet-copper ear-plug of the ordinary type; four arrowheads, three of quartzite, one 
of chert; a cutting implement wrought from a large quartz pebble; two leaf-shaped 
implements of quartzite, lying a short distance apart. 
А few bits of pottery lay here and there in the mound, some undecorated, some 
with the small check-stamp, one with lined decoration, another with lined and 
punctate marking. 
In the western margin of the mound was a small, undecorated, imperforate bowl 
(Vessel No. 1), placed upright in part of another undecorated bowl. Both are of 
inferior ware. 
In the eastern margin, lying mouth down, was a gourd-shaped vessel of excellent 
ware (Vessel No. 2), with oval aperture, and having a mortuary perforation. There 
are three annular decorations in relief emphasized by a surrounding depression 
(Fig. 11). 
Much farther toward the center of the mound was Vessel No. 3, in fragments. 
This vessel, pieced together, is imperforate as to the base, and has a semiglobular 
body with an octagonal rim bearing punctate decoration, probably made in this in- 
stance by a trailing point and not with a roulette, or notched wheel (Fig. 12). 
