262 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
Vessel No. 5.—This vessel, semiglobular, imperforate, with thickened rim, bears 
a small check-stamp decoration (Fig. 14). 
Vessel No. 6.—A perforate pot with small check-stamp decoration (Fig. 15). 
Vessel No. 7.—4An undecorated jar having a basal mutilation (Fig. 16). 
Vessel No. 8.—A bowl of considerable size, of inferior ware, found in many 
fragments. The only decoration consists of two encircling, incised lines below the 
rim. 
Fic. 15.—Vessel No. 6. Mound in Kimbell’s Field. Fic. 16.— Vessel No. 7. Mound in Kimbell’s Field. 
(Diameter 5 inches.) (Diameter 4.9 inches.) 
Shell-tempered ware was not present in this mound. 
At or near what seemed to be the center of the base of the mound, was a pit 
roughly circular, apparently beginning at the base, where its diameter was about 5 
feet, and converging downward about 20 inches. This pit, which contained no 
human remains, was filled with the material composing the mound, but colored black 
with admixture of organic matter. In this material were very many small masses 
of ferruginous sandstone. 
Mounp OPPOSITE PEAvEY'S LANDING, CLARKE COUNTY. 
This mound, in sight from the river, is at a nameless landing directly opposite 
Peavey's Landing, on the other side of the river. Тһе mound, 10 feet in height, 
formerly oblong in outline, is now irregular from wash of water in flood-time. Its 
basal diameters are 125 feet NNW. and SSE., and 90 feet ENE. and WSW. The 
summit plateau is 55 feet by 40 feet in corresponding directions. As the mound 
evidently was domiciliary, and as its destruction could not be permitted owing to 
