2941 MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
FIELD West or Mounp N. 
The digging in the field west of Mound N consisted of twenty-seven trial- 
holes put down in the immediate neighborhood of the mound. 
Eight burials were encountered, of which but one had associated objects. 
GROUND NEAR NORTHERN SIDE OF MOUND Q. 
Some digging was done by us at our former visit, in the level ground near the 
northern side of Mound Q, resulting in the finding of skeletons without artifacts 
in association. 
Additional work on our second visit yielded four skeletons, all lying at full 
length on the back, having no associated objects. 
Fiero West or Могхр В. 
This tract, connected with the great field which is surrounded by the mounds, 
lies outside the circle, to the westward of Mound R. It was investigated by us to 
some extent at the time of our first visit. | 
On our second visit, two and one-half days were spent putting down trial- 
holes and trenching in this place, with an average force of ten men. 
As the fifty-eight burials we found here differed in no material respect from 
the interments encountered in the ground south of Mound D, they will not be par- 
ticularly described although exact details of their occurrence, as indeed of all we 
found at Moundville, are included in our field notes. 
The association of two of the burials was striking. Burial No. 25, the skele- 
ton of an adult, lying on the left side with the legs somewhat drawn up, had, 
resting on the left arm, the skeleton of an infant. 
At this place were graves in the red clayey sand underlying the clay of the 
field, which was discolored with organie matter. Some of these graves were 5 feet 
below the present surface, and did not seem to be connected with it. Other and 
shallower graves, filled with material extending down from the surface, also were 
present. 
In the deeper graves no artifacts save shell beads were present with the 
burials, all other objects found being in the shallower graves. АП these objects, 
however, were purely aboriginal and of the same character as those found in other 
mounds and cemeteries of Moundville. 
Several other places, after considerable digging, yielded single skeletons. 
POTTERY. 
The pottery of Moundville, as we have said in our former report, varies little 
in form, being confined mainly to the bottle, the pot; and the bowl. The engraved 
designs on the pottery are its main feature of interest. 
As we found to be the case before, earthenware vessels, when present, as а 
