512 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
By landing at the lower side of the lower mouth of Old river and following a 
road parallel to it, about 1.5 miles, we reached the property of Mr. Н. S. Jones. of 
Arkansas Post, to whom we are greatly indebted for cordial permission to investi- 
gate whatever portion we saw fit. 
Near the road, forming part of Mr. Jones’ property is a field (twelve acres in 
extent, we are informed), at the eastern corner of which rises a mound about 5 
feet in height and 75 feet, approximately, across its somewhat irregular base, except 
where a small part of the mound is cut away by a cross-road, where the diameter 
is, of course, somewhat less. | 
Part of the mound, not being on Mr. Jones’ property, was not dug into by us. 
The part investigated yielded nothing except the neckless body of a water-bottle, 
that probably got in with the clay material of which the mound is made. 
The history of the twelve-acre field and of an unenclosed field on the other 
side of the cross-road, which latter field has now been so denuded of soil by heavy 
wash of rain after cultivation that careful investigation by us was without result, 
is a long list of discoveries of earthenware vessels, by all who have had a hand in 
the cultivation of the property. 
In the twelve-acre field, which is higher than most of the surrounding land 
and is not subject to overflow, and іп the adjacent barnyard of Mr. L. F. Shepherd, 
the manager of the property, are a number of circular rises of the ground, all 
dwelling-sites from which, with the exception of those in the barnyard, which have 
not been under cultivation, the plow had turned out much clay, hard and red from 
ancient fires. 
Two of these dwelling-sites (those nearest the mound) were each about 40 feet 
in diameter, the others somewhat less. 
The sites, nine in all, were carefully dug by us and nearly all found to contain 
burials and artifacts, but to a very different extent. 
About 30 yards W. by N. from the mound was one of the larger elevations 
which had been long and deeply plowed over and doubtless deprived of much of 
its original contents, many of the burials being but 6 inches below the surface— 
the upper parts of the most deeply buried being but 18 inches down. 
From this site came thirty burials, thirty-four additional being found in the 
other dwelling-sites which had been less deeply plowed and consequently in which 
bones and artifacts were in somewhat better condition. 
All bones, however, were badly affected by decay; no crania were saved, but 
large fragments of some showed moderate artificial cranial compression. 
As the forms of burial in these dwelling-sites near Old River Landing pre- 
sented nothing markedly different from those met with near the Menard mound, 
they will not be described, although exact details are given in our field-notes. 
In one dwelling-site were found several burials which we could not positively 
assign to either the flexed burial or to the bunched method of interment. These 
particular burials, each made up of the parts of one skeleton only, had the bones 
largely in place; a few, however, were in disorder. Presumably these latter bones, 
