578 CERTAIN MOUNDS OF ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
On the charcoal and extending beyond it was a deposit of calcined fragments 
of human bones, 2 feet wide, 2 feet 9 inches long, and about 3 inches thick. 
Just below the surface of the mound was a thin layer of fragments of cal- 
cined human remains mingled with charcoal, 2 feet long by 1 foot 4 inches wide. 
Nearby was a small decorated pot in fragments. On the opposite side of the layer 
was another small pot, also in fragments, having a slight, rude decoration and two 
: loop-handles. 
Sixteen inches down were the remains of probably what had been a skeleton 
extended at full length on the back. 
Fra. 2.— Vessel of earthenware. Mound D. Peaster Place. (Height 5.2 inches.) 
Two feet from the surface was an urn-burial consisting of presumably a skele- 
ton—the decaying remains of a skull and some long-bones being noted— which, 
after the removal of the flesh, had been taken apart and arranged in a heap on the 
ground. This heap had been covered, or rather, almost covered (for a few ends of 
long-bones projected), by a large inverted bowl of most inferior ware, which, upon 
removal, fell into many small fragments paste-like in consistency. This bowl had 
no decoration except a grotesque representation of a human head extending above 
the rim, part of which also crumbled away. Near the projecting bones was a small 
* celt" which was given by us to the owner of the mound. 
