966 CERTAIN ABORIGINAL REMAINS, LOWER TOMBIGBEE RIVER. 
and in the large surrounding field were many flakes and chippings, mainly of 
quartzite; and on the mound were small bits of inferior earthenware. The present 
measurements of the mound are: basal diameters, 220 feet east and west; 180 feet 
north and south; height, 6.5 feet. 
Many excavations yielded two arrowheads or knives, of quartzite, and one of 
chert. One fragment of bone was met with, too much decayed for identification. 
MOUND NEAR BASHI CREEK, CLARKE COUNTY. 
In a field formerly under cultivation, about one-quarter mile in a southeasterly 
direction from the mouth of Bashi creek, on property of the Mobile Lumber Company, 
was a mound that evidently had lost parts of two sides through the agency of the 
plough. Previous visitors had left a hole in the central part, 3 feet by 4 feet, by 
4 feet deep. The mound, which was entirely dug down by us, consisted of a mix- 
ture of clay and sand. Its height was a trifle more than 5 feet; its basal measure- 
ments, 25 feet by 34 feet. 
Human remains were encountered in twelve places, one burial being more than 
4 feet deep. The burials, with one exception, resembled in form those in mounds 
lately described by us, and were fragmentary and badly decayed. Just beneath 
the surface were a number of bones together, having under them fragments of what 
had been a vessel or a large part of a vessel of considerable size. The ware, shell- 
tempered, was inferior and undecorated. Here, doubtless, were the remains of an 
urn-burial. 
With one burial were two flakes of chert. 
The bones in this mound were so badly decayed (in one case one fragment 
only being present with a few teeth), that it is hard to say whether or not objects 
found alone had been with burials originally. Іп addition to many flakes, chip- 
pings, and small masses of rock, there were in the mound, singly and apparently 
away from bones, twelve cutting implements, erc arrowheads, and knives, all of 
quartzite except one of red chert. 
There were also in the mound an 
interesting implement, apparently 
an arrowhead or knife, utilized as a 
drill after breakage, an ellipsoidal 
pebble-hammer, and a ball of grani- 
tic rock, about 2.5 inches in diameter. 
Lying closely packed together 
was a deposit of fifty masses of sand- 
stone and of ferruginous sandstone, 
from the size of a fist downward, 
together with a slab of the latter 
stone. А neatly-made smoothing- 
stone of fine-grained, ferruginous 
sandstone, apparently shaped to be 
> Fic. 17.—Sherd. Mound Bashi k. 
held in the hand, lay alone. ; ORS аа 
