MOUNDVILLE REVISITED. 
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Six double-bladed implements—hatchets and chisels— were found, the majority 
apparently of fine-grained, igneous rock. One of these 
is shown in Fig. 92. 
We have noted in the previous report the compara- 
tive absence of weapons at Moundville. The results of 
our second visit were confirmatory as to this. 
A spear-head of chert, 6 inches in length, lay near 
the right forearm of a skeleton; and a fragment of a 
spear-head or of a dagger, more than three inches long, 
was unearthed. 
Two small chert arrowheads were found, each near 
the skull of a skeleton; and four others lay near the knee 
of the skeleton of an adult fully extended on the back. 
This same skeleton, it may be said incidentally, had with 
the arrowheads many small fragments of chert; a water- 
bottle near the knee; along the right leg masses of hem- 
atite in a condition to use as paint. Another water-bottle 
was near the pelvis. 
A neat little gorget (Fig. 95), probably of igneous 
rock, lay in the soil alone. 
Fragments of mica lay with skeletons and alone in 
the soil. On each side of a skull was a dise of mica, 
centrally perforated—ear-plugs, no doubt. 
Кіс. 92.—Double-bladed implement 
and section. (Full size.) 
1.5 inches in diameter, 
No particular mention will be made of pebbles, pebble-hammers, chips of stone, 
hones of sandstone, etc., found scattered in the soil apart 
the skull of a skeleton. 
the nearby coal region, was found. 
from burials. A multi-grooved sandstone hone lay near 
A rude dise of inflammable material, probably from 
SHELL OBJECTS. 
Owing to lapse of time or to other causes, objects 
wrought from shell at Moundville were, as a rule, either too 
FrG.93.—Gorget. (Full size) fragmentary or too indistinct as to decoration to be of inter- 
est archxologically. If all the shell (and, incidentally, all 
the copper) objects which were found in crumbling remnants at Moundville, could 
be represented entire in this memoir, we are confident an important page would be 
added to the history of prehistoric art in America. 
In small fragments, on the second investigation, were found what remained of 
two shell drinking-eups which evidently had been covered with incised decoration. 
Another shell drinking-eup, decorated with straight lines over part of the 
surface, lay in contact with the skull of an extended skeleton. 
Several undecorated drinking-cups also were found. 
